Elevator music as a tool for the quantitative characterization of reward.

Autor: Abrams EB; Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York, USA.; Center for Language, Music, and Emotion (CLaME), New York University, New York, New York, USA.; Music and Audio Research Laboratory (MARL), New York University, New York, New York, USA., Namballa R; Music and Audio Research Laboratory (MARL), New York University, New York, New York, USA., He R; Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York, USA.; Center for Language, Music, and Emotion (CLaME), New York University, New York, New York, USA.; Music and Audio Research Laboratory (MARL), New York University, New York, New York, USA., Poeppel D; Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York, USA.; Center for Language, Music, and Emotion (CLaME), New York University, New York, New York, USA., Ripollés P; Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York, USA.; Center for Language, Music, and Emotion (CLaME), New York University, New York, New York, USA.; Music and Audio Research Laboratory (MARL), New York University, New York, New York, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences [Ann N Y Acad Sci] 2024 May; Vol. 1535 (1), pp. 121-136. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Apr 02.
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.15131
Abstrakt: While certain musical genres and songs are widely popular, there is still large variability in the music that individuals find rewarding or emotional, even among those with a similar musical enculturation. Interestingly, there is one Western genre that is intended to attract minimal attention and evoke a mild emotional response: elevator music. In a series of behavioral experiments, we show that elevator music consistently elicits low pleasure and surprise. Participants reported elevator music as being less pleasurable than music from popular genres, even when participants did not regularly listen to the comparison genre. Participants reported elevator music to be familiar even when they had not explicitly heard the presented song before. Computational and behavioral measures of surprisal showed that elevator music was less surprising, and thus more predictable, than other well-known genres. Elevator music covers of popular songs were rated as less pleasurable, surprising, and arousing than their original counterparts. Finally, we used elevator music as a control for self-selected rewarding songs in a proof-of-concept physiological (electrodermal activity and piloerection) experiment. Our results suggest that elevator music elicits low emotional responses consistently across Western music listeners, making it a unique control stimulus for studying musical novelty, pleasure, and surprise.
(© 2024 The New York Academy of Sciences.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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