This study investigates whether listening to an excerpt of music in
audio-only or audio-video contexts affects perceptual ratings, and what the
relationship of the context presentation is to perceptual ratings.
Participants listened to music in audio-only and audio-video contexts and
completed a survey with self-reported ratings for familiarity, emotional
and mental engagement, and likability. Results suggest there was no effect
of audio-only or audio-visual presentation on perceptual ratings. This
conclusion is similar to work done by Huang and Krumhansl (2011). Both
emotional engagement and mental engagement had strong correlations with
likability ratings. Emotional ratings had a slightly larger effect than
mental ratings, not significantly stronger, in the audio-only condition,
but results are mixed in the video condition. This suggests a need for
closer examination of the emotional and mental rating categories and their
relationship to likability.
