Patrik Juslin
Professor at Department of Psychology; Emotion Psychology
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 72 74
- E-mail:
- Patrik.Juslin@psyk.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Von Kraemers allé 1A och 1C
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 1225
751 42 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
Patrik N. Juslin is head of the Music Psychology Group, responsible for the department’s research, teaching and open seminars in music psychology. His research focuses on areas such as musical emotions, aesthetics, emotional speech, music education, music and health, and emotion perception in schizophrenia and dementia. In 2020 the Royal Academy of Music awarded him a prize “for his world-leading research in music psychology", which includes his recent book, Musical Emotions Explained (2019).

Publications
Recent publications
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Part of Psychology of Music, p. 42-62, 2026
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Part of The Oxford handbook of music psychology, Oxford University Press, 2026
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Part of The Oxford Handbook of Expressivity, p. 821-849, Oxford University Press, 2025
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Part of Music perception, p. 421-466, 2025
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Part of Psychology of Music, p. 3-5, 2025
All publications
Articles in journal
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Part of Psychology of Music, p. 42-62, 2026
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Part of Music perception, p. 421-466, 2025
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Part of Psychology of Music, p. 3-5, 2025
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Musical performance evaluation: Ten insights from psychological studies of aesthetic judgment
Part of Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, p. 196-208, 2023
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Aesthetic judgments of music: Reliability, consistency, criteria, self insight, and expertise
Part of Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, p. 193-210, 2023
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Musik och känslor: Teoriers betydelse för effektiv tillämpning
Part of Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift, p. 663-673, 2022
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Part of Music perception, p. 55-86, 2022
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Mind the gap: The mediating role of emotion mechanisms in social bonding through musical activities
Part of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2021
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Spontaneous vocal expressions from everyday life convey discrete emotions to listeners
Part of Emotion, p. 1281-1301, 2021
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Part of Music & Science, p. 1-21, 2021
- DOI for Emotional Reactions to Music in Dementia Patients and Healthy Controls: Differential Responding Depends on the Mechanism
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Part of Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, p. 105-112, 2018
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Emotional reactions to music in depressed individuals
Part of Psychology of Music, p. 862-880, 2018
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Part of Music & Science, p. 1-12, 2018
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The Mirror to Our Soul?: Comparisons of Spontaneous and Posed Vocal Expression of Emotion
Part of Journal of nonverbal behavior, p. 1-40, 2018
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Röstens fejkade och äkta känslouttryck
Part of Psykologtidningen, p. 30-33, 2017
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Part of Psychomusicology, p. 293-326, 2016
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Part of Music & Medicine, p. 187-198, 2016
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No accounting for taste? Idiographic models of aesthetic judgment in music
Part of Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, p. 157-170, 2016
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Resilience: Mediated not by one, but many appraisal mechanisms
Part of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2015
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From sound to significance: Exploring the mechanisms underlying emotional reactions to music
Part of American Journal of Psychology, p. 281-304, 2015
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Part of Psykologtidningen, p. 26-29, 2015
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What makes music emotionally significant?: Exploring the underlying mechanisms
Part of Psychology of Music, p. 599-623, 2014
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Part of Research Studies in Music Education, p. 179-198, 2014
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Music and emotion: There is more to music than meets the ear.
Part of Emotion Researcher, 2014
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What does music express?: Basic emotions and beyond
Part of Frontiers in Psychology, p. 596, 2013
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Part of Psychology of Music, p. 579-599, 2013
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Part of Schizophrenia Bulletin, p. 86-93, 2013
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From everyday emotions to aesthetic emotions: Toward a unified theory of musical emotions.
Part of Physics of Life Reviews, p. 235-266, 2013
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Part of Physics of Life Reviews, p. 281-286, 2013
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Are musical emotions invariant across cultures?
Part of Emotion Review, p. 283-284, 2012
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Part of American Journal of Psychiatry, p. 424-432, 2012
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Musik leder till bättre folkhälsa
Part of Tvärsnitt, 2012
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Part of Musicae scientiae, p. 174-207, 2011
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Musical expression of emotions: Modeling listeners´ judgements of composed and performed features
Part of Music analysis, p. 334-364, 2010
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Part of Schizophrenia Bulletin, p. 545-556, 2010
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Part of Music Education Research, p. 175-191, 2009
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Emotional responses to music: Experience, expression, and physiology
Part of Psychology of Music, p. 61-90, 2009
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Musical expression: an observational study of instrumental teaching
Part of Psychology of Music, p. 309-334, 2008
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All emotions are not created equal: reaching beyond the traditional disputes
Part of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, p. 600-621, 2008
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An experience sampling study of emotional reactions to music: listener, music, and situation
Part of Emotion, p. 668-683, 2008
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Emotional responses to music: the need to consider underlying mechanisms
Part of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, p. 559-575, 2008
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Musical expression: An observational study of instrumental teaching.
Part of Psychology of Music, p. 309-334, 2008
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Musik och känslor: Dina musikupplevelser berättar vem du är
Part of Biz & Art, p. 40-44, 2008
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Similar patterns of age-related differences in emotion recognition from speech and music
Part of Motivation and Emotion, p. 182-191, 2007
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Part of Acta Acoustica united with Acustica, p. 411-420, 2007
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Part of Schizophrenia Bulletin, p. 540, 2007
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Play It Again With Feeling: Computer Feedback in Musical Communication of Emotions
Part of Journal of experimental psychology. Applied, p. 79-95, 2006
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A dimensional approach to vocal expression of emotion
Part of Cognition & Emotion, p. 633-653, 2005
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Part of JOURNAL OF NEW MUSIC RESEARCH, p. 216-237, 2004
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Part of Research Studies in Music Education, p. 23-47, 2003
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Communication of emotions in vocal expression and music performance: Different channels, same code?
Part of Psychological Bulletin, p. 770-814, 2003
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Five facets of musical expression: A psychologist's perspective on music performance
Part of PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC, p. 273-302, 2003
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Emotional expression in speech and music: Evidence of cross-modal similarities
Part of ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, p. 279-282, 2003
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Current trends in the study of music and emotion: Overture
Part of MUSICAE SCIENTIAE, p. 3-21, 2002
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A system for improving the communication of emotion in music performance by feedback learning
Part of JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, p. 2471, 2002
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Toward a computational model of expression in music performance: The GERM model
Part of MUSICAE SCIENTIAE, p. 63-122, 2002
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Part of Emotion, p. 381-412, 2001
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Cue utilization in communication of emotion in music performance: Relating performance to perception
Part of Journal of Experimental Psychology, p. 1797-1813, 2000
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Part of International Journal of Psychology, p. 288-289, 2000
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Improving emotional communication in music performance through cognitive feedback
Part of MUSICAE SCIENTIAE, p. 151-183, 2000
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The role of timing patterns in recognition of emotional expression from musical performance
Part of MUSIC PERCEPTION, p. 197-221, 1999
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Part of Musicae scientiae, p. 225-256, 1997
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Emotional communication in music performance: A functionalist perspective and some data.
Part of MUSIC PERCEPTION, p. 383-418, 1997
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Part of PSYCHOMUSICOLOGY, p. 77-101, 1997
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Part of UNG FORSKNING, p. 60-64, 1996
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Part of PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC, p. 68-91, 1996
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A functionalistic perspective on emotional communication in music
Part of EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES OF MUSIC, p. 11-16, 1995
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Är din dator intelligent? En snabborientering i artificiell intelligens
Part of UNG FORSKNING, p. 52-56, 1994
Articles, review/survey
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Brunswik's methodological fears are music to our ears
Part of The Brunswik Society Newsletter, p. 14-15, 2004
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Cognitive feedback and musical expressivity: Teaching the thing that cannot be taught
Part of The Brunswik Society Newsletter, p. 12-13, 2001
Books
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Musical emotions explained: Unlocking the secrets of musical affect
Oxford University Press, 2019
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Handbook of music and emotion: Theory, research, applications
Oxford University Press, 2010
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Music and emotion: Theory and research
Oxford University Press, 2001
Chapters in book
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Part of The Oxford handbook of music psychology, Oxford University Press, 2026
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Part of The Oxford Handbook of Expressivity, p. 821-849, Oxford University Press, 2025
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Neural correlates of music and emotion
Part of The Oxford handbook of music and the brain, p. 285-332, Oxford University Press, 2019
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Emotional reactions to music: Mechanisms and modularity
Part of Music, speech, and mind, p. 17-51, Brazilian Association of Cognition and Musical Arts, 2019
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Part of Oxford handbook of music psychology, p. 197-213, Oxford University Press, 2016
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Part of Oxford handbook of music psychology, p. 597-613, Oxford University Press, 2016
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Part of The psychology of music, p. 583-645, Elsevier, 2013
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Vocal expression of affect: Promises and problems.
Part of Evolution of emotional communication: From sounds in nonhuman mammals to speech and music in man, p. 252-273, Oxford University Press, 2013
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Music, subjective well-being, and health: The role of everyday emotions
Part of Music, health, and well-being, p. 405-423, Oxford University Press, 2012
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Music, subjective well-being, and health: The role of everyday emotions.
Part of Music, health, and well-being, p. 405-423, Oxford University Press, 2012
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Part of The psychology of music, p. 583-645, Elsevier, 2012
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Music and emotion: Seven questions, seven answers
Part of Music and the mind, p. 113-135, Oxford University Press, 2011
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How does music evoke emotions? Exploring the underlying mechanisms
Part of Handbook of music and emotion: Theory, research, applications., p. 605-642, Oxford University Press, 2010
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Expression and communication of emotion in music performance
Part of Handbook of music and emotion, p. 453-489, Oxford University Press, 2010
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The past, present and future of music and emotion reserch
Part of Handbook of music and emotion, p. 933-955, Oxford University Press, 2010
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Introduction: Aims, organization and terminology
Part of Handbook of music and emotion, p. 3-12, Oxford University Press, 2010
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At the interface between the inner and outer world: Psychological perspectives
Part of Handbook of music and emotion, p. 73-97, Oxford University Press, 2010
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Part of Oxford handbook of music psychology, p. 131-140, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009
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Part of Oxford handbook of music psychology, p. 377-389, Oxford University Press, 2009
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Part of The Oxford companion to emotion and the affective sciences, p. 269-271, Oxford University Press, 2009
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Sound of music: Seven ways in which the brain can evoke emotions from sound.
Part of Sound, mind and emotion, p. 11-41, Sound Environment Centre, 2009
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Part of The Oxford companion to emotion and the affective sciences, p. 80-81, Oxford University Press, 2009
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Part of Scholarpedia, p. 4240, Scholarpedia, 2008
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L'interpretazione musicale e le emozioni
Part of Orientamenti per la didattica strumentale, p. 132-155, Libreria Musicale Italiana, 2007
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Part of The new handbook of methods in nonverbal behavior research, p. 65-135, Oxford University Press, 2005
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Affektive Prozesse: Emotionale und ästhetische Aspekte musikalischen Verhaltens
Part of Enzyklopädie der Psychologie, p. 767-841, Hogrefe, Göttingen, 2005
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From mimesis to catharsis: Expression, perception, and induction of emotion in music
Part of Musical communication, p. 85-115, Oxford University Press, New York, 2005
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Technical issues in recording nonverbal behavior
Part of The new handbook of methods in nonverbal behavior research, p. 449-470, Oxford University Press, New York, 2005
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Feedback learning of musical expressivity
Part of Musical excellence, p. 247-270, Oxford University Press, 2004
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Part of Handbook of affective sciences, p. 503-534, Oxford University Press, New York, 2003
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Part of The science and psychology of music performance, p. 219-236, Oxford University Press, 2002
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Part of Music and emotion, p. 449-458, Oxford University Press, 2001
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Music and emotion: Introduction
Part of Music and emotion, p. 3-20, Oxford Unicersity Press, 2001
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Psychological perspectives on music and emotion
Part of Music and emotion: theory and research, p. 71-104, 2001
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Communicating emotion in music performance: A review and a theoretical framework
Part of Music and emotion: Theory and research, p. 309-337, 2001
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A Brunswikian approach to emotional communication in music performance
Part of The essential Brunswik: Beginnings, explications, applications, p. 426-430, 2001
Conference papers
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Manipulation of mechanisms underlying emotional reactions in music
Part of Proceedings of the Ninth Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, 17-22 August 2015, Manchester, UK, p. 490-491, 2015
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Idiographic modelling of aesthetic judgments of music
Part of Proceedings of the Ninth Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music ESCOM, Manchester, 17-22 August, Manchester, UK., p. 492-493, 2015
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Accounts of Emotional Reactions to Music: “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”
2015
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Hearing with our hearts: Psychological perspectives on music and emotion
2012
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Music, emotion, and health: The role of underlying mechanisms
2012
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Computer feedback in musical communication of emotions: The Feel-ME program
Part of Art and science, p. 550-554, 2004
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Part of ISRE 2000, p. 278-281, 2004
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Vocal expression and musical expression: Parallels and contrasts
Part of ISRE 2000, p. 281-284, 2004
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Studies of music performance: A theoretical analysis of empirical findings
Part of Proceedings of the Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference, p. 513-516, 2003
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Automatic real-time extraction of musical expression
Part of Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2002, p. 365-367, 2002
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Do listeners use timing patterns to decode the emotional expression of music performances?
Part of Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, p. 293-298, 1998
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How to improve emotional communication in music performance
Part of Music, mind and science: Proceedings of 5th ICMPC, p. 387-392, 1998
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How can music performers become better at communicating emotions to listeners?
Part of Proceedings of the Third Triennial ESCOM Conference, p. 493-498, 1997
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On the functional validity of expressive cues in music performance
Part of Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, p. 225-230, 1996
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Emotional communication in music viewed through a Brunswikian lens
Part of Music and expression: Proceedings of the Conference of DGM and ESCOM 1995, p. 21-25, 1995
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Expressive intention governs music performance
Part of Proceedings of the Third International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition, p. 19-20, 1994