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Engraved in the Body : Ways of Reading Finnish People's Memories of Mental Hospitals
2021
Finnish psychiatric practice has been heavily based on institutionalization. Mental hospitalsMental hospital have thus been part of Finns' lives in many ways. Our multidisciplinary researchMultidisciplinary research group has investigated how experiences in these institutions are remembered today by analysing writings by patients, relatives, personnel and their children, collected in 2014--2015 with the Finnish Literature Society. The memoriesMemory cover phases of psychiatric care from the 1930s to the mid-2010s. This article presents multiple ways in which experiences that are often difficult verbalize can be interpreted, e.g. by drawing on perspectives from creative, artistic and cultura…
Mielisairaalan varjoista : nostalgia ja melankolia mielisairaala-alueilla asuneiden lapsuusmuistoissa
2018
1940–1960-luvuilla suomalaisten mielisairaaloiden henkilökunta perheineen asui tyypillisesti sairaala-alueilla tarkoitusta varten rakennetuissa asunnoissa. Käytäntö toi mielisairaala-alueille myös henkilökunnan lapset. Analysoin artikkelissa mielisairaalan henkilökunnan lasten lapsuudenympäristöihinsä liittämiä tunnekokemuksia. Nyt jo aikuisten lasten muistelmat sävyttyvät paitsi nostalgisesta kaipuusta lapsuuden leikkipaikkoihin ja mielisairaalaelämän yhteisöllisyyteen, myös melankoliasta, joka liittyi yhteisön eristyneisyyteen ja siellä läsnä olevaan väkivallan ja kuoleman uhkaan. Keskeisiä käsitteitä analyysissa ovat nostalgian ja melankolian lisäksi topofilia ja topofobia eli paikkaan l…
A person-oriented approach to diary data. Children’s temperamental negative emotionality increases susceptibility to emotion transmission in father-c…
2015
The notion that some individuals are more prone to emotion transmission than others has prompted the need for a person-oriented approach to emotion transmission in parent-child dyads. The present study applied a person-oriented analysis to examine the patterns of emotion transmission that can be identified in the diary data of father-child dyads, and the extent to which children with high levels of temperamental negative emotionality are particularly susceptible to emotion transmission within the family. Mothers of 149 first grade children (age 6 to 7) completed questionnaires concerning their child’s temperament. Mothers and fathers maintained diary questionnaires (for a total of 7 days) c…
”Do you have a language of emotions?” : early multilinguals' perceptions of emotional weight in their languages
2017
Monikielisyys on tänä päivänä hyvin yleinen ilmiö, jota on tutkittu monista näkökulmista. Yksi suosittu aihe on monikielisten henkilöiden omiin kieliinsä yhdistämät tunnemerkitykset, eli kuinka jotkut kielet voidaan kokea tunnetasolla painoltaan tai merkitykseltään voimakkaampina kuin toiset. Tämä tunneherkkyys on yleisesti ottaen vahvin henkilön äidinkielessä, mutta niille puhujille, joilla ei ole yhtä selvää äidinkieltä, tilanne on toinen. Tämän tutkielman tavoitteena oli selvittää, kokevatko tällaiset hyvin varhaiset monikieliset puhujat, että jokin heidän kielistään on selvästi emotionaalisemmalta painoarvoltaan selkeämpi kuin muut, tai onko heillä kieli, jonka voisi luokitella tunteide…
Investigating Relationships Between Music, Emotions, Personality, and Music-Induced Movement
2013
Listening to music makes us to move in various ways. The characteristics of these movements can be affected by several aspects, such as individual factors, musical features, or the emotional content of the music. In a study in which we presented 60 individuals with 30 musical stimuli representing different genres of popular music and recorded their movement with an optical motion capture system, we found significant correlations 1) between musical characteristics and the exhibited movement, 2) between the perceived emotional content of the music and the movement, and 3) between personality traits of the dancers and the movement. However, such separate analyses are incapable of investigating…
The Effect of Expertise in Evaluating Emotions in Music
2013
This study investigates the role of expertise in the listener judgment of emotion in music. Previous studies suggest that the most important factors are mode and tempo, respectively influencing valence and arousal. The effect is stronger when the two parameters converge (major mode combined with fast tempo and vice versa), whereas tempo predominates when they do not converge. An open question is whether and how these judgments vary with the expertise of the listener. Our hypothesis is that non-experts will base their evaluation mainly on tempo, disregarding mode, which is more complex to be aware of. On the other hand, experts will take advantage of both sources of information. The experime…
Brain-Activity-Driven Real-Time Music Emotive Control
2013
Active music listening has emerged as a study field that aims to enable listeners to interactively control music. Most of active music listening systems aim to control music aspects such as playback, equalization, browsing, and retrieval, but few of them aim to control expressive aspects of music to convey emotions. In this study our aim is to enrich the music listening experience by allowing listeners to control expressive parameters in music performances using their perceived emotional state, as detected from their brain activity. We obtain electro-encephalogram (EEG) data using a low-cost EEG device and then map this information into a coordinate in the emotional arousalvalence plane. Th…
Emotional Data in Music Performance : Two Audio Environments for the Emotional Imaging Composer
2013
Technologies capable of automatically sensing and recognizing emotion are becoming increasingly prevalent in performance and compositional practice. Though these technologies are complex and diverse, we present a typology that draws on similarities with computational systems for expressive music performance. This typology provides a framework to present results from the development of two audio environments for the Emotional Imaging Composer, a commercial product for realtime arousal/valence recognition that uses signals from the autonomic nervous system. In the first environment, a spectral delay processor for live vocal performance uses the performer's emotional state to interpolate betwe…
What makes us like music?
2009
Why do we like the music we like and why do different people like different kinds of music? Existing models try to explain music preference as an interplay of musical features, the characteristics of the listener, and the listening context. Hereby, they refer to short-term preference decisions for a given piece of music rather than to the question why we listen to music at all and why we select a particular musical style. In this paper, it is hypothesized that the motivation for music listening and the liking for a particular kind of music depend on the functions that this music can fulfill for the listener. Thus, the relative contribution of these functions to the development of music pref…
The Effects of Nicotine on Music-Induced Emotion
2013
Nicotine is an available drug widely self-administered in the context of music (e.g. pubs, clubs). Furthermore, nicotine effects one’s physiology, which allowed us to test the effects of these physiological changes on the emotional experiences of music. We hypothesized that because nicotine changes one’s physiology it may also change one’s affective arousal in response to music. To test this, non-smokers were administered nicotine gum at either 2mg, 4mg, or placebo level. Participants then listened to 4 musical excerpts: happy, sad, neutral, and self-selected chill-inducing. After each listening, participants rated their emotional responses on 6 intensi-ty scales: arousal, pleasure, happy, …