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How experiencing eudaimonic emotions through music shapes prosocial and altruistic behavior: introducing a Unified Model of Music-Listening-Induced Eudaimonia (UMMIE) Open

Rebecca Tukachinsky Forster, Daniel H. Spitz, Tal-Chen Rabinowitch, Roni Granot · 2025

This paper introduces the Unified Model of Music-Listening Induced Eudaimonia (UMMIE), which offers an integrated novel theoretical framework to explain how music listening promotes prosocial and altruistic outcomes. Drawing on communicati…

Lyrics do matter: how “coping songs” relate to well-being goals. The COVID pandemic case Open

Adi Levy, Roni Granot, Renana Peres · 2024

Introduction In stressful times, people often listen to “coping songs” that help them reach emotional well-being goals. This paper is a first attempt to map the connection between an individual’s well-being goals and their chosen coping so…

Feeling the Beat: Temporal Predictability is Associated with Ongoing Changes in Music-Induced Pleasantness Open

Neomi Singer, Nori Jacoby, Talma Hendler, Roni Granot · 2023

Music is a complex phenomenon that elicits a range of emotional responses, influenced by numerous variables, such as rhythm, melody and harmony. One interesting aspect of music is listeners’ ability to predict its continuation as it unfold…

Exploring Melodic Contour: A Clustering Approach Open

Michal Goldstein, Roni Granot, Pablo Ripollés, Morwaread Farbood · 2023

Previous studies investigating common melodic contour shapes have relied on methodologies that require prior assumptions regarding the expected contour patterns. Here, a new approach for examining contour using dimensionality reduction and…

Consonance Dissonance and Cadences Open

Roni Granot, Neta B. Maimon · 2023

The musical surrounding typical of most non-European/North American population includes some mix of Western, local art or folk music, and hybrid forms combining the two. How do these various musical systems play out in the internalized mus…

The rediscovered motor-related area 55b emerges as a core hub of music perception Open

Tali Siman-Tov, Carlos R. Gordon, Netanell Avisdris, Ofir Shany, Avigail Lerner , et al. · 2022

Passive listening to music, without sound production or evident movement, is long known to activate motor control regions. Nevertheless, the exact neuroanatomical correlates of the auditory-motor association and its underlying neural mecha…

“Help! I Need Somebody”: Music as a Global Resource for Obtaining Wellbeing Goals in Times of Crisis Open

Roni Granot, Daniel H. Spitz, Boaz R. Cherki, Psyche Loui, Renee Timmers , et al. · 2021

Music can reduce stress and anxiety, enhance positive mood, and facilitate social bonding. However, little is known about the role of music and related personal or cultural (individualistic vs. collectivistic) variables in maintaining well…

The Efficacy of Music for Emotional Wellbeing During the COVID-19 Lockdown in Spain: An Analysis of Personal and Context-Related Variables Open

Pastora Martínez‐Castilla, Isabel M. Gutiérrez-Blasco, Daniel H. Spitz, Roni Granot · 2021

The strict lockdown experienced in Spain during March–June 2020 as a consequence of the COVID-19 crisis has led to strong negative emotions. Music can contribute to enhancing wellbeing, but the extent of this effect may be modulated by bot…

"Help! I Need Somebody": Music as a Global Resource for Obtaining Wellbeing Goals in Times of Crisis Open

Roni Granot, Daniel J. Spitz, Boaz R. Cherki, Psyche Loui, Renee Timmers , et al. · 2021

Music can reduce stress and anxiety, enhance positive mood, and facilitate social bonding. However, little is known about the role of music and related personal or cultural (individualistic versus collectivistic) variables in maintaining w…

Correction: AVPR1a and SLC6A4 Gene Polymorphisms Are Associated with Creative Dance Performance Open

Rachel Bachner‐Melman, Christian Dina, Ada H. Zohar, Naama Constantini, Elad Lerer , et al. · 2019

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0010042.].

Short Latency Effects of Auditory Frequency Change on Human Motor Behavior Open

Amos Boasson, Roni Granot · 2019

Auditory frequency change (FC) might be crucial to respond to. We hypothesized that FC affects human motor behavior within short latency, and that upwards vs downwards changes exert distinct effects. Behavioral correlates of asymmet…

Surprise-related activation in the nucleus accumbens interacts with music-induced pleasantness Open

Ofir Shany, Neomi Singer, Benjamin P. Gold, Nori Jacoby, Ricardo Tarrasch , et al. · 2019

How can music-merely a stream of sounds-be enjoyable for so many people? Recent accounts of this phenomenon are inspired by predictive coding models, hypothesizing that both confirmation and violations of musical expectations associate wit…

Short Latency Effects of Auditory Frequency Change on Human Motor Behavior Open

Amos Boasson, Roni Granot · 2019

Auditory frequency change (FC) might be crucial to respond to. We hypothesized that FC affects human motor behavior within short latency, and that upwards vs downwards changes exert distinct effects. Behavioral correlates of asymmet…

Robust inter-subject audiovisual decoding in functional magnetic resonance imaging using high-dimensional regression Open

Gal Raz, Michele Svanera, Neomi Singer, Gadi Gilam, Maya Bleich Cohen , et al. · 2017

Letter of the guest editors of the special issue on “Music as a multimodal experience”. Open

Renee Timmers, Roni Granot · 2016

It is our pleasure to introduce a collection of papers brought together under the heading of as a Multimodal Experience. This issue aims to bring to the foreground recent developments in our understanding of music as a multimodal experien…

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