Language of music really is universal, study finds
Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 13:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Native African people who have never even listened to the radio before can nonetheless pick up on happy, sad, and fearful emotions in Western music, according to a new report published online on March 19th in Current Biology. The result shows that the expression of those three basic emotions in music can be universally recognized, the researchers said.