@phdthesis{Fritz2008,
  author    = {Fritz, Thomas},
  title     = {Emotion investigated with music of variable valence : neurophysiology and cultural influence},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-29114},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2008},
  abstract  = {Music is a powerful and reliable means to stimulate the percept of both intense pleasantness and unpleasantness in the perceiver. However, everyone's social experiences with music suggest that the same music piece may elicit a very different valence percept in different individuals. A comparison of music from different historical periods suggests that enculturation modulates the valence percept of intervals and harmonies, and thus possibly also of relatively basic feature extraction processes. Strikingly, it is still largely unknown how much the valence percept is dependent on physical properties of the stimulus and thus mediated by a universal perceptual mechanism, and how much it is dependent on cultural imprinting. The current thesis investigates the neurophysiology of the valence percept, and the modulating influence of culture on several distinguishable sub-processes of music processing, so-called functional modules of music processing, engaged in the mediation of the valence percept.},
  language  = {en}
}