Sala Martinetti, via Festa del Perdono, 7, 20122, Milan & online
Thursday, 27 June 2024, 2pm–4pm (CEST)
Diana Omigie (Goldsmiths)
The Role of Epistemic Emotions in Shaping the Music Listening Experience
Over the course of a typical music listening episode, most individuals will find their focus switching between the music and other thoughts or actions. In this talk, I will first briefly review what is known about the role of epistemic emotions in aesthetic engagement. I will then present a series of studies demonstrating that the experience of curiosity, and conversely mind-wandering, during music listening is influenced by the heard music’s unfolding structure. Finally, I will present a novel model of time-varying music engagement that seeks to account for how music listening operates in typical real world listening situations, where draws on attention are many. I will end the talk by considering the presented work’s broader implications for empirical aesthetics research and by outlining promising directions for future research.
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