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Valance and arousal

1.The dimesnion of emotions COunteor—-pattern of music and it move—music taps into it

EMbodies meaning—Mayer

designated—symbo and referent are different in nature: word (symbol) and the object (referent) it refer to (aka language)

Embodied

Ecpectation—violatins of expectation create undifferentiated arousal—-we noitve irregularities and detect patterns for prediction

Melodic cues—intervla vary diff. emotion

ADAPTIVE AaROuSAL—MANDLER

Music playing with arousal—skin conductanc, BP, etc—one dimension not an emtoioint but rather incongruites result from arousal and cognitive reevaluation of the stimulus (Over complex and simple, we don’t like it but a medium level yes —max hedinic value)