Stimulus 1: Varúò by Sigur Rós

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.

The music these responses were collected to was Sigur Ros’s Varuo, from the Valtari album, release in 2011. These responses are of the listeners first 24 hearings of this particular piece of epic post-rock.

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