Title
A Multimodal View into Music's Effect on Human Neural, Physiological, and Emotional Experience
Abstract
Music has a powerful influence on human experience. In this paper, we investigate how music affects brain activity, physiological response, and human-reported behavior. Using auditory features related to dynamics, timbre, harmony, rhythm, and register, we predicted brain activity in the form of phase synchronizations in bilateral Heschl's gyri and superior temporal gyri; physiological response in the form of galvanic skin response and heart activity; and emotional experience in the form of continuous, subjective descriptions reported by music listeners. We found that using multivariate time series models with attention mechanisms are effective in predicting emotional ratings, while vector-autoregressive models are effective in predicting involuntary human responses. Musical features related to dynamics, register, rhythm, and harmony were found to be particularly helpful in predicting these human reactions. This work adds to our understanding of how music affects multimodal human experience and has applications in affective computing, music emotion recognition, neuroscience, and music information retrieval.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3343031.3350867
Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia
Keywords
Field
DocType
multimodal experience, music processing, neural networks
Music information retrieval,Computer science,Musical,Cognitive psychology,Brain activity and meditation,Music emotion recognition,Affective computing,Multimedia,Rhythm,Timbre,Harmony (color)
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6889-6
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Timothy Greer103.04
Benjamin Ma201.69
Matthew Sachs300.34
Assal Habibi431.43
Shrikanth Narayanan5123.29