What is it about?
How similar are emotions when listening to a musical phrase from Chopin or Beethoven? Nobody knows today how to measure these similarities
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Why is it important?
How many emotions exist? 10 or 10,000? Are musical emotions same or different from happiness or fear? To understand emotions, first we need to know how to measure them.
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Few mysteries remain in science. Measuring emotions is one of them.
Prof Leonid Perlovsky
Harvard University
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This page is a summary of: Mystery in experimental psychology, how to measure aesthetic emotions?, Frontiers in Psychology, September 2014, Frontiers,
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01006.
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