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The Psychology of Music Appreciation

MMB Project Aesthetics Music

How do we experience beauty in music? What is the psychological basis of music appreciation? We study the cognitive and cultural foundations of sensory valuation and aesthetic experience, in particular of abstract and dynamic subjective stimuli such as music. We are also interested in understanding how collective aesthetic experiences emerge from individual brains and social interactions. We study the psychological basis of music appreciation by combining a wide range of methods to measure behavioural, physiological, and brain responses. ​​

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Publications

  • Omigie, D., & Mencke, I. (2024). A model of time-varying music engagement. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 379(1895), 20220421. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0421 

  • Steffens, J., & Anglada-Tort, M. (2023). The effect of visual recognition on listener choices when searching for music in playlists. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000562 

  • Omigie, D., Frieler, K., Bär, C., Muralikrishnan, R., Wald-Fuhrmann, M., & Fischinger, T. (2021). Experiencing musical beauty: Emotional subtypes and their physiological and musico-acoustic correlates. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 15(2), 197. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000271 

  • Anglada-Tort, M., Steffens, J., & Müllensiefen, D. (2019). Names and titles matter: The impact of linguistic fluency and the affect heuristic on aesthetic and value judgements of music. Psychology of aesthetics, creativity, and the arts, 13(3), 277. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000172 

  • Anglada-Tort, M., & Skov, M. (2022). What counts as Aesthetics in Science? A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization of the Scientific Literature from 1970 to 2018. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 16(3), 553. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000350 

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