...) break routines are short and highly emotive music motifs, which are proposed to increase tension to peak levels during build-up passages, prior to highly expected drop passages that evoke peak-pleasurable emotions when listeners’ expectations are fulfilled. Continuous tension ratings throughout EDM...

...Amelia S. Turrell; Andrea R. Halpern; Amir-Homayoun Javadi Previous brain-related studies on music-evoked emotions have relied on listening to long music segments, which may reduce the precision of correlating emotional cues to specific brain areas. Break routines in electronic dance music (EDM...