...Imre Lahdelma; Tuomas Eerola This study tested whether chords that do not differ in acoustic roughness but that have distinct affective connotations are strong enough to prime negative and positive associations measurable with an affective priming method. We tested whether musically dissonant...

...Paula Virtala; Minna Huotilainen; Esa Lilja; Juha Ojala; Mari Tervaniemi Guitar distortion used in rock music modifies a chord so that new frequencies appear in its harmonic structure. A distorted dyad (power chord) has a special role in heavy metal music due to its harmonics that create a major...

...Daniel I. Brooks; Robert G. Cook PIGEONS WERE TRAINED IN A GO/NO-GO TASK TO discriminate a major triad from four other chord triads. These latter chords were constructed by altering the third or fifth of the triad by one semitone, creating minor, suspended fourth, augmented, or flat five chords...