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Motion and emotion

In this interview, Professor Hallgjerd Aksnes discusses her and her colleagues' research into the links between emotion in music and bodily metaphors.

In this video you will visit Professor Hallgjerd Aksnes in her office at the University of Oslo.

She has recently completed a large scale project entitled “Music, Motion and Emotion: Theoretical and Psychological Implications of Musical Embodiment”. Here she and the rest of the team have studied the links between emotion in music and bodily metaphors.

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