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Anticipation is the key to understanding music and the effects of music on emotion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2008

Peter Vuust  and
Chris D. Frith
Peter Vuust
Affiliation:
Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University Hospital, 8000 Aarhus C, [email protected]://www.musik-kons.dk/foku/pvuust.php Royal Academy of Music, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
Chris D. Frith
Affiliation:
Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University Hospital, 8000 Aarhus C, [email protected]://www.musik-kons.dk/foku/pvuust.php Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College, London, WC1 N 3BG, United [email protected]://www.interacting-minds.net
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Abstract

There is certainly a need for a framework to guide the study of the physiological mechanisms underlying the experience of music and the emotions that music evokes. However, this framework should be organised hierarchically, with musical anticipation as its fundamental mechanism.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 5 , October 2008 , pp. 599 - 600
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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