This article outlines various proposals about how music evokes emotion in listeners, suggesting a connection to movement in music cognition.
Music may be an art, but science can help explain why it makes us feel powerful emotions. A number of reasonable proposals have been tabled over the years in an effort to explain how we experience emotion in music. This article outlines a few of these proposals and one in particular concerning movement, which has been gaining some attention recently in the growing field of music cognition.
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