The Study on the Identification of Musical Passages for an Emotion Perception Scale for People With Developmental Disabilities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emotion recognition is essential to the social adjustment and social interaction of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs). Given that music is a medium for expressing and conveying human emotion, we conducted this preliminary study to identify musical passages representing the basic human emotions of happiness, sadness, and anger, with the goal of developing a music-based emotion perception scale for IDDs.

Methods

To identify musical passages for emotion perception, 20 certified music therapists evaluated 100 selected musical passages and established 60 pieces that yielded the highest agreement for each emotion category. During the second phase of this study, 300 neurotypical participants rated 60 passages in terms of the perceived type an

SUBMITTER: Lee JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9902668 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature