According to the existing research, the part of the brain in charge of language is also linked with musical functions. Besides, it is not a secret that music can influence language development in the human brain. However, there is seldom research on how language can influence the processing of musics. Here, research is designed to measure how the presence of language can alter the perception of music and, specifically, how lyrics (language) can affect how people perceive the emotions in the music. The scores given by the participants about how strong the emotions perceived (including positive to negative ones) in the music will be the operational definition.
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Liang et al. (2024) studied this question.
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