Stimulus 7: Movimento Preciso e Meccanico (Ligeti) by Alarm Will Sound

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 to Movimento Preciso e Meccanico from Chamber Concerto by György Ligeti as performed by Alarm Will Sound in a/rhythmia. The listener was familiar with this album and piece but had not listened closely to this track before the experiment started.

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