Emotional states influence forward gait during music listening based on familiarity with music selections

•Emotional states altered forward gait pace and amplitude during music listening.•Pleasant musical emotions were associated with faster gait and longer stride.•Unpleasant musical emotions were associated with slower gait and shorter stride.•Impacts of musical emotion on forward gait differed based o...

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Veröffentlicht in:Human movement science 2019-08, Vol.66, p.53-62
Hauptverfasser: Park, K. Shin, Hass, Chris J., Fawver, Bradley, Lee, Hyokeun, Janelle, Christopher M.
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Zusammenfassung:•Emotional states altered forward gait pace and amplitude during music listening.•Pleasant musical emotions were associated with faster gait and longer stride.•Unpleasant musical emotions were associated with slower gait and shorter stride.•Impacts of musical emotion on forward gait differed based on familiarity with music. Music elicits a wide range of human emotions, which influence human movement. We sought to determine how emotional states impact forward gait during music listening, and whether the emotional effects of music on gait differ as a function of familiarity with music. Twenty-four healthy young adults completed walking trials while listening to four types of music selections: experimenter-selected music (unfamiliar-pleasant), its dissonant counterpart (unfamiliar-unpleasant), each participant’s self-selected favorite music (familiar-pleasant), and its dissonant counterpart (familiar-unpleasant). Faster gait velocity, cadence, and stride time, as well as longer stride length were identified during pleasant versus unpleasant music conditions. Increased gait velocity, stride length, and cadence as well as reduced stride time were positively correlated with subjective ratings of emotional arousal and pleasure as well as musical emotions such as happiness-elation, nostalgia-longing, interest-expectancy, pride-confidence, and chills, and they were negatively related to anger-irritation and disgust-contempt. Moreover, familiarity with music interacted with emotional responses to influence gait kinematics. Gait velocity was faster in the familiar-pleasant music condition relative to the familiar-unpleasant condition, primarily due to longer stride length. In contrast, no differences in any gait parameters were found between unfamiliar-pleasant and unfamiliar-unpleasant music conditions. These results suggest emotional states influence gait behavior during music listening and that such effects are altered by familiarity with music. Our findings provide fundamental evidence of the impact of musical emotion on human gait, with implications for using music to enhance motor performance in clinical and performance settings.
ISSN:0167-9457
1872-7646
DOI:10.1016/j.humov.2019.03.004