Ma, Xuanyi; (2023) Towards a novel approach for real-time psycho-physiological and emotional response measurement: findings from a small-scale empirical study on sad erhu music. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).

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Abstract

The aim of the present study is to introduce a novel, systematic approach for real-time psycho-physiological and emotional response measurement. As a vital part of the development of this approach, a small-scale study of four participants was con- ducted to collect listeners’ real-time psycho-physiological and emotional responses to sad erhu music. In this empirical study, four then university students (2 Chinese, 2 non- Chinese; 3 females, 1 male) were asked to continuously report their inducted musical emotions during listening trials, while their real-time psycho-physiological responses were recorded simultaneously with Continuous Response Measurement Apparatus (CReMA, Himonides & Welch, 2005). Participants’ continuous emotional and psycho-physiological responses were recorded and partially processed in Labchart (ADInstruments Pty Ltd, 2010). Other data processing and further data analyses of processed data were performed using the Python programming language. A framework for data processing and analysis, which is replicable and easily extensible, was then constructed to investigate: 1) the impact of music on emotional and psycho-physiological responses; 2) the cor- relation between psycho-physiological and emotional responses; 3) the differences between real-time and post-listening emotional responses; 4) the impact of culture, gender, age, personality and experience of music education on psycho-physiological and emotional responses.

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