Facial Expression More Important To Conveying Emotion In Music Than In Speech

Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - 16:50 in Psychology & Sociology

Regular concert-goers are used to seeing singers use expressive and even very dramatic facial expressions - that's because it works.Music and speech are alike in that they use both facial and acoustic cues to engage listeners in an emotional experience and so  a team of researchers at McGill University wondered what roles these different cues played in conveying emotions. read more

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