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05286244 Esposito, Anna Serio, Manuela Children's perception of musical emotional expressions. Esposito, Anna (ed.) et al., Verbal and nonverbal communication behaviours. COST action 2102 international workshop, Vietri sul Mare, Italy, March 29--31, 2007. Revised selected and invited papers. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-540-76441-0/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4775. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 51-64 (2007). 2007 Berlin: Springer EN Emotion music perception children affective cues vocal expressions

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-76442-7_5

Summary: This study investigates on children's ability to interpret emotions in instrumentally-presented melodies. 40 children (20 males and 20 females) all aged six years, have been tested for the comprehension of emotional concepts through the correct matching of emotional pictures to pieces of music. Results indicate that 6-year-old emotional responses to orchestral extracts considered full of affective cues are similar to those demonstrated by adults and that there is no gender effect.