A comparative study of the perception of music emotion between adults with and without visual impairment

TL;DR: Despite significant vision loss, humans can still recognize various emotional stimuli via a sense of hearing and express diverse emotional responses, which can be sorted into two dimensions, arousa... as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors explored a musical intervention for a 9-year-old autistic child with neurodevelopmental disorders in a school setting and found that the therapeutic relationship naturally grew the music experience and ultimately contributed to the progress of the participant.

TL;DR: Shape-changing skin emotional mappings depend on visual abilities in children with and without visual impairment.

TL;DR: The fear module is assumed to mediate an emotional level of fear learning that is relatively independent and dissociable from cognitive learning of stimulus relationships.

TL;DR: It is concluded that music evokes emotions through mechanisms that are not unique to music, and that the study of musical emotions could benefit the emotion field as a whole by providing novel paradigms for emotion induction.

TL;DR: A review of 104 studies of vocal expression and 41 studies of music performance reveals similarities between the two channels concerning (a) the accuracy with which discrete emotions were communicated to listeners and (b) the emotion-specific patterns of acoustic cues used to communicate each emotion as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The authors addressed this question by progressively characterizing music-induced emotions in 4 interrelated studies by introducing a domain-specific device to measure musically induced emotions--the Geneva Emotional Music Scale.