A recent study reveals that music provides a means of communicating affective meaning. Researchers ran a series of experiments into how humans react to affective musical stimuli and how physiological and neurological signals recorded.
‘We sought to investigate this through a series of experiments into how humans react to affective musical stimuli and how physiological and neurological signals recorded from those participants change in accordance with self-reported changes in affect’ says Nicoletta Nicolaou, Assistant Professor at the University of Nicosia Medical School and co-author of the study which was published on June 15 in Scientific Data.
The study presents datasets that were recorded throughout the course of the project and include details of the musical stimuli, participant reports of their felt changes in affective states as they listened to the music, and concomitant recordings of physiological and neurological activity. Researchers ran a series of experiments into how humans react to affective musical stimuli and how physiological and neurological signals are affected.