Projects & Foci

Music and Emotions

Postdoc

Research activity

List of publications page

http://www.eadward.org/research/research.php

Biographical note

Eduardo Coutinho (1980, Portugal) received his degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in 2003 from the University of Porto (Portugal), where he specialized in computational modelling and multi-agent systems. Following his strong interesting in emotions and music, Coutinho engaged in a doctoral degree at the School of Computing and Mathematics from the University of Plymouth (UK). In 2008, he was awarded his Ph.D. with a thesis entitled Computational and Psycho-Physiological Investigations of Musical Emotions. In it, Coutinho explores the link between emotional responses to music, low-level psychoacoustic features (elements of sound that are perceived similarly across cultures) and self-perception of physiological activation, by means of a novel methodology consisting of computational investigations based on spatiotemporal neural networks sensitive to structural aspects of music and listeners’ physiological responses. Since then, Coutinho has been researching on the psychophysiological effects of music in human emotions, and has recently extended his studies to the expression of emotion in speech during a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Sheffield. In parallel with his research, he has also developed some projects in composition and interactive art. Coutinho is also an honorary research fellow at the University of Liverpool (School of Music).

Current research

Research Interests 

* Computational models of emotions

* Emotional communication in music and speech

* Music, Medicine & Science

* Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation

* Multi-agent systems

* Emotion and cognition

Other interests 

* Algorithmic composition and sound design

* Computer music systems

* Sound ecology

Current Projects 

* Music, Speech, and Emotion: the role of low-level features in the communication of emotion in speech prosody and music.

* Estimating the dimensionality of the musical emotions space

List of publications

Selected Publications

Coutinho, E. & Cangelosi, A. (in press). Musical emotions: predicting second-by-second subjective feelings of emotion from low-level psychoacoustic features and physiological measurements. To appear in Emotion.

Coutinho, E. (2010). Modeling psycho-physiological measurements of emotional responses to multiple music genres. In S.M. Demorest, S.J. Morrison, & P.S. Campbell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC11) (p. 53). Seattle, WA, USA.

Coutinho, E. & Dibben, N. (2010). Music, Speech and Emotion: psycho-physiological and computational investigations. In N. Dibben & R. Timmers (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology: Nature versus Culture (CIM’10) (pp. 47-48). Sheffield (UK): University of Sheffield.

Coutinho, E. & Cangelosi, A. (2010). A Neural Network Model for the Prediction of Musical Emotions. In S. Nefti-Meziani & J.G. Grey (Ed.). Advances in Cognitive Systems (pp. 331-368). London: IET Publisher. ISBN: 978-1849190756.

Coutinho, E.  (2010). Cognitive Dissonance, Knowledge Instinct and Musical Emotions. Physics of Life Reviews, 7(1), 30-32. DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2010.01.016.

Coutinho, E. & Cangelosi, A. (2009). The use of spatio-temporal connectionist models in psychological studies of musical emotions. Music Perception, 27 (1), 1-15. DOI: 10.1525/mp.2009.27.1.1

Coutinho E. &  Cangelosi A. (2007). Emotion and Embodiment in Cognitive Agents: from Instincts to Music. In H. Hexmoor & C. Thompson (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems (KIMAS’07) (pp. 133-138). Waltham, MA: IEEE Press. DOI: 10.1109/KIMAS.2007.369798.

Coutinho, E., Miranda, E.R. & Silva, P. (2005). Evolving emotional behaviour for expressive performance of music. In T. Panayiotopoulos, J. Gratch, R. Aylett, D. Ballin, P. Olivier & T. Rist (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Intelligent Virtual Agents, 3661, 147. Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/11550617_48.

Coutinho, E., Miranda, E.R. & Cangelosi, A. (2005). Towards a Model for Embodied Emotions. In C. Bento, A. Cardoso, & G. Dias (Eds.), Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA’05) (pp. 54-63). Covilha: IEEE Press. DOI: 10.1109/EPIA.2005.341264

Coutinho, E., Gimenes, M., Martins, J.M., & Miranda, E.R. (2005). Computational musicology: An artificial life approach. In C. Bento, A. Cardoso, & G. Dias (Eds.), Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA’05) (pp. 85-93). Covilha: IEEE Press. DOI: 0.1109/EPIA.2005.341270.

My publications

http://www.affective-sciences.org/user/347/publications