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Sep 2026
Perceived pleasantness mediates the effects of high-arousal and emotionally complex music on pain.
ABSTRACT Music effectively reduces pain, yet the mechanisms underlying music-induced hypoalgesia remain poorly understood. We investigated how latent perceptual dimensions of music influence pain by examining both stimulus properties and subjective evaluations of those properties in 2 experiments. One hundred thirty-fo...
Élise Desbarats, Darius Valevicius, Anaïs Lépine Lopez et al.
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