Neural and physiological data from participants listening to affective music

Ian Daly, Nicoletta Nicolaou, Duncan Williams, Faustina Hwang, Alexis Kirke, Eduardo Miranda, Slawomir J. Nasuto

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    Abstract

    Music provides a means of communicating affective meaning. However, the neurological mechanisms by which music induces affect are not fully understood. Our project sought to investigate this through a series of experiments into how humans react to affective musical stimuli and how physiological and neurological signals recorded from those participants change in accordance with self-reported changes in affect. In this paper, the datasets recorded over the course of this project are presented, including details of the musical stimuli, participant reports of their felt changes in affective states as they listened to the music, and concomitant recordings of physiological and neurological activity. We also include non-identifying meta data on our participant populations for purposes of further exploratory analysis. This data provides a large and valuable novel resource for researchers investigating emotion, music, and how they affect our neural and physiological activity.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number177
    JournalScientific Data
    Volume7
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 15 Jun 2020

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