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Tuomas Eerola is a researcher affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom, specializing in the intersection of neuroscience and music perception. Their academic work spans multiple fields including neuroscience and psychology, with a strong focus on subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, music, and signal processing.

Their research topics encompass diverse aspects of music and audio processing, neuroscience and music perception, music therapy and health, multisensory perception and integration, diverse music education insights, hearing loss and rehabilitation, and music technology and sound studies.

Recent publications by Tuomas Eerola include:

  • Music Emotion Recognition: Toward new, robust standards in personalized and context-sensitive applications (2021, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine)
  • Music May Reduce Loneliness and Act as Social Surrogate for a Friend: Evidence from an Experimental Listening Study (2020, Music & Science)
  • Interpersonal Entrainment in Music Performance (2020, Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal)
  • Harmonic organisation conveys both universal and culture-specific cues for emotional expression in music (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • Cultural familiarity and musical expertise impact the pleasantness of consonance/dissonance but not its perceived tension (2020, Scientific Reports)

Frequent collaborators include Imre Lahdelma, Jamés O. Armitage, Kelly Jakubowski, Nieves Fuentes-Sánchez, and Martin Clayton. Collaboration networks highlight a consistent engagement with peers in music psychology and cognitive neuroscience.

Main publication venues where Tuomas Eerola's work appears frequently are Music & Science, PLoS ONE, Musicae Scientiae, Frontiers in Psychology, and Psychology of Music. This distribution indicates a concentration within journals that focus on psychological and neuroscientific aspects of music.

Best Publications

  • A comparison of the discrete and dimensional models of emotion in music

    Tuomas Eerola;Jonna K. Vuoskoski

  • Rhythmic engagement with music in infancy

    Marcel Zentner;Tuomas Eerola

  • A Review of Music and Emotion Studies: Approaches, Emotion Models, and Stimuli

    Tuomas Eerola;Jonna K. Vuoskoski

  • Who enjoys listening to sad music and why

    Jonna K. Vuoskoski;William F. Thompson;Doris McIlwain;Tuomas Eerola

  • Can sad music really make you sad? Indirect measures of affective states induced by music and autobiographical memories.

    Jonna K. Vuoskoski;Tuomas Eerola

  • Cross-cultural music cognition: cognitive methodology applied to North Sami yoiks

    Carol L. Krumhansl;Pekka Toivanen;Tuomas Eerola;Petri Toiviainen

  • What makes music emotionally significant? Exploring the underlying mechanisms:

    Patrik N. Juslin;László Harmat;Tuomas Eerola

  • PREDICTION OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL EMOTIONAL RATINGS IN MUSIC FROM AUDIO USING MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION MODELS

    Tuomas Eerola;Olivier Lartillot;Petri Toiviainen

  • Measuring music-induced emotion: A comparison of emotion models, personality biases, and intensity of experiences

    Jonna K. Vuoskoski;Tuomas Eerola

  • The role of mood and personality in the perception of emotions represented by music.

    Jonna K. Vuoskoski;Tuomas Eerola

  • Universal and culture-specific factors in the recognition and performance of musical affect expressions.

    Petri Laukka;Tuomas Eerola;Nutankumar S. Thingujam;Teruo Yamasaki

  • Being moved by unfamiliar sad music is associated with high empathy.

    Tuomas Eerola;Tuomas Eerola;Jonna Katariina Vuoskoski;Jonna Katariina Vuoskoski;Hannu Kautiainen

  • It's Sad but I Like It: The Neural Dissociation Between Musical Emotions and Liking in Experts and Laypersons.

    Elvira Brattico;Elvira Brattico;Elvira Brattico;Brigitte Bogert;Vinoo Alluri;Mari Tervaniemi

  • Neural discrimination of nonprototypical chords in music experts and laymen: An meg study

    Elvira Brattico;Karen Johanne Pallesen;Olga Varyagina;Christopher Bailey

  • The Role of Melodic and Temporal Cues in Perceiving Musical Meter

    Erin E. Hannon;Joel S. Snyder;Tuomas Eerola;Carol L. Krumhansl

  • The Pleasure Evoked by Sad Music Is Mediated by Feelings of Being Moved.

    Jonna K. Vuoskoski;Tuomas Eerola

  • Extended Music Education Enhances the Quality of School Life.

    Päivi-Sisko Eerola;Tuomas Eerola

  • Extramusical information contributes to emotions induced by music

    Jonna K. Vuoskoski;Tuomas Eerola

  • Emotional expression in music: contribution, linearity, and additivity of primary musical cues.

    Tuomas Eerola;Anders Friberg;Roberto Bresin

  • Timbre and Affect Dimensions: Evidence from Affect and Similarity Ratings and Acoustic Correlates of Isolated Instrument Sounds

    Tuomas Eerola;Rafael Ferrer;Vinoo Alluri

  • Melodic Expectation in Finnish Spiritual Folk Hymns: Convergence of Statistical, Behavioral, and Computational Approaches

    Carol L. Krumhansl;Jukka Louhivuori;Petri Toiviainen;Topi Järvinen

Frequent Co-Authors

Elvira Brattico
Elvira Brattico University of Helsinki
Peter E. Keller
Peter E. Keller University of Sydney
Patrik N. Juslin
Patrik N. Juslin Uppsala University
Carol L. Krumhansl
Carol L. Krumhansl Cornell University
Mari Tervaniemi
Mari Tervaniemi University of Helsinki
Barbara Tillmann
Barbara Tillmann Laboratory for Research on Learning and Development
Markus Hausmann
Markus Hausmann Durham University
William Forde Thompson
William Forde Thompson Bond University
Martin J. Pickering
Martin J. Pickering University of Edinburgh
Petri Laukka
Petri Laukka Uppsala University

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