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SUBMITTER: Sievers B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3538264 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sievers Beau B Polansky Larry L Casey Michael M Wheatley Thalia T
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20121217 1
Music moves us. Its kinetic power is the foundation of human behaviors as diverse as dance, romance, lullabies, and the military march. Despite its significance, the music-movement relationship is poorly understood. We present an empirical method for testing whether music and movement share a common structure that affords equivalent and universal emotional expressions. Our method uses a computer program that can generate matching examples of music and movement from a single set of features: rate ...[more]