Listening to the Shepard-Risset glissando: the relationship between emotional response, disruption of equilibrium and personality

The endless scale illusion, obtained by cyclically repeating a chromatic scale made up of Shepard tones, has been used in a variety of musical works. Music psychology and neuroscience has been interested in this particular psychoacoustic phenomenon mainly for studying the cognitive processes of pitc...

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Main Authors: Eveline eVernooij, Angelo eOrcalli, Franco eFabbro, Cristiano eCrescentini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00300/full