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  1. The influence of consonance–dissonance contrasts on perceived pleasantness of concluding tonic chords in short chord sequences

    Article • Psychology of Music, January 2026, SAGE Publications

    Dr Imre Lahdelma, Prof Tuomas Eerola

  2. The perception of tension in harmonic intervals across Indian and Western listeners: the roles of psychoacoustics and musical expertise

    Article • Journal of New Music Research, November 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Imre Lahdelma, Prof Tuomas Eerola

  3. Participant and Musical Diversity in Music Psychology Research

    Article • Music & Science, January 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr Imre Lahdelma, Dr Thomas Anthony Graves

  4. Dissonance and Pleasantness: Testing the Contrast Effect Using Short Chord Sequences

    Article • September 2024, Center for Open Science

    Dr Imre Lahdelma, Prof Tuomas Eerola

  5. Valenced Priming with Acquired Affective Concepts in Music

    Article • Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal, February 2024, University of California Press

    Dr Imre Lahdelma

  6. Musical expertise better predictor of tension in harmonic intervals than psychoacoustics across North and South Indian listeners

    Article • December 2023, Center for Open Science

    Dr Imre Lahdelma, Prof Tuomas Eerola

  7. Culture influences conscious appraisal of, but not automatic aversion to, acoustically rough musical intervals

    Article • PLOS One, December 2023, PLOS

    Dr Imre Lahdelma

  8. Data-driven Theory Formulation or Theory-driven Data Interpretation?

    Article • Physics of Life Reviews, April 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Imre Lahdelma

  9. Culture influences conscious appraisal of but not automatic aversion to acoustically rough musical intervals

    Article • January 2023, Center for Open Science

    Dr Imre Lahdelma, Prof Tuomas Eerola

  10. Correction: Harmonic organisation conveys both universal and culture-specific cues for emotional expression in music

    Article • PLOS One, February 2022, PLOS

    Dr Imre Lahdelma

  11. Is Harmonicity a Misnomer for Cultural Familiarity in Consonance Preferences?

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2022, Frontiers

    Dr Imre Lahdelma

  12. Register impacts perceptual consonance through roughness and sharpness

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, December 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Imre Lahdelma, Prof Tuomas Eerola

  13. Biology determines what sounds are unpleasant, but musical preference is culturally acquired

    Article • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, July 2021, Wiley

    Dr Imre Lahdelma, Prof Tuomas Eerola

  14. Automatic responses to musical intervals: Contrasts in acoustic roughness predict affective priming in Western listeners

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, July 2021, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Dr Imre Lahdelma, Prof Tuomas Eerola

  15. Harmonic organisation conveys both universal and culture-specific cues for emotional expression in music

    Article • PLOS One, January 2021, PLOS

    Dr Imre Lahdelma, Prof Tuomas Eerola

  16. The Anatomy of Consonance/Dissonance: Evaluating Acoustic and Cultural Predictors Across Multiple Datasets with Chords

    Article • Music & Science, January 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Imre Lahdelma, Prof Tuomas Eerola

  17. A Response to Michael Spitzer's Commentary

    Article • Empirical Musicology Review, October 2020, The Ohio State University Libraries

    Dr Imre Lahdelma

  18. The Anatomy of Consonance/Dissonance: Evaluating Acoustic and Cultural Predictors Across Multiple Datasets with Chords

    Article • October 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Imre Lahdelma, Prof Tuomas Eerola

  19. Automatic Responses to Acoustically Rough Intervals: Evidence from a Word Evaluation task

    Article • August 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Imre Lahdelma, Prof Tuomas Eerola

  20. A Response to Michael Spitzer’s Commentary

    Article • July 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Imre Lahdelma, Prof Tuomas Eerola

  21. Everyday experience with music and musical training impact the pleasantness of consonance

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Imre Lahdelma, Prof Tuomas Eerola

  22. Musical dissonance influences the perception of emotional words

    Article • Musicae Scientiae, March 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr Imre Lahdelma, Prof Tuomas Eerola

  23. Exposure impacts the pleasantness of consonance/dissonance but not its perceived tension

    Article • December 2019, Center for Open Science

    Prof Tuomas Eerola, Dr Imre Lahdelma

  24. Mildly dissonant chords are preferred more than maximally consonant ones.

    Article • i-Perception, June 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Imre Lahdelma, Prof Tuomas Eerola

  25. Theoretical Proposals on How Vertical Harmony May Convey Nostalgia and Longing in Music

    Article • Empirical Musicology Review, September 2015, The Ohio State University Libraries

    Prof Tuomas Eerola, Dr Imre Lahdelma

  26. Single chords convey distinct emotions to listeners

    Article • Psychology of Music, October 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Imre Lahdelma, Prof Tuomas Eerola

  27. Chord Evaluation Scale

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof Tuomas Eerola, Dr Imre Lahdelma