Stimulus 4: The Littlest Birds by The Be Good Tanyas

These graphs report per stimulus the time course of responses across the 24 listening sessions. Some report the general patterns of responses, other show how the listener’s responses changed over successive exposures

The continuous ratings of Felt Emotional Valence and Arousal, plotted three different ways. First as individual lines with the cross listening average, then layered per session with colour marking the scale values, and finally the activity-level times series reporting the proportion of listenings showing rating changes up or down per 2 s interval.

These responses were collected The Littlest Birds, a bluegrass tune by The Be Good Tanyas. This song and all the harmonies were very familiar to the listener. It’s an extremely effective earworm.

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