The Emotional Power of Music
Edited by Tom Cochrane, Bernardino Fantini, and Klaus R. Scherer
Kristen Jafflin
Author Information
Tom Cochrane, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, UK,Bernardino Fantini, Full Professor of History of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland,Klaus R. Scherer, Director, Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences, Switzerland
Tom Cochrane is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Sheffield, where he teaches aesthetics, ethics and the philosophy of mind. He received his PhD from the University of Nottingham in 2007. From 2007 to 2010 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, researching emotions and the arts. He then spent two years at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast, working on an individual research project called 'The Mood Organ: Putting theories of musical expression into practice'. His main areas of interest are music, emotion, extended and collective cognition and complexity.
Bernardino Fantini is Full Professor of History of Medicine , Director of the Institute of the History of Medicine and Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for the Historical Research on Public Health. Since 2009 he is active in the Focus Music and Emotion of the National Center of Competence in Affective Sciences, Geneva.
After a PhD in biochemistry in Rome, he has got a PhD in History and Philosophy of Life Sciences at the EPHE-Sorbonne, Paris, in 1992. His main research subjects are the history of infectious diseases and international health, the epistemology of biology and medicine and the history of relationships between medicine, science and music.
Klaus Scherer, born in 1943, studied economics and social sciences at the University of Cologne and the London School of Economnics. Following his postgraduate studies in psychology, he obtained a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1970. After teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and the University of Kiel, Germany, he was appointed, in 1973, full professor of social psychology at the University of Giessen, Germany. From 1985 to 2008, Klaus Scherer has been a full professor of psychology at the University of Genneva, Switzerland, and director of the Human Assessment Centre (Laboratoire d'Evaluation Psychologique). Since 2004 he is the Director of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences at the University of Geneva. Apart from extensive theoretical work (Component Process Model), Scherer's research activities focus on different aspects of emotion and other affective states, in particular emotional expression and induction of emotion by music.
Contributors:
Brenno Boccadoro, Department of Musicology, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Tom Cochrane, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, UK
Lincoln John Colling, Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, The Netherlands
Eduardo Coutinho, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Stephen Davies, Department of Philosophy, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Bernardino Fantini, Institut d'Histoire de la Médecine et de la Santé, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Penelope Gouk, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester, UK
Christine Jeanneret, Department of Musicology, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Stefan Koelsch, Cluster Lanugages of Emotion, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Joel Krueger, Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter, UK
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, Department of Music, King's College London, UK
Claude Victor Palisca (deceased), previously Professor Emeritus of Music, Yale University, USA
Professor Jackie Pigeaud , Honorary senior member, Institut Universitaire de France, France
Jenefer Robinson, Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, USA
Professor Klaus Scherer, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Professor Michael Spitzer, Department of Music, University of Liverpool, UK
Professor Jean Starobinski, Professor Emeritus of French Literature, University of Geneva, Switzerland
William Forde Thompson, Centre for Elite Pergormance, Expertise, and Training, Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Australia
Wiebke Trost, Neuroscience of Emotion and Affective Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Geneva; Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Ulrik Volgsten, School of Music, Theatre and Art, Örebro University, Sweden
Patrik Vuilleumier, Laboratory for Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Laurence Wuidar, Independent Researcher
Luca Zoppelli, Department of Musicology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
