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Eduardo Coutinho

Dr Eduardo Coutinho

Senior Lecturer in Music Psychology
Music

Publications

Selected publications

  1. POLYHYMNIA Mood - Empowering people to cope with depression through music listening (Conference Paper - 2021)
  2. Music and Hypertonia: Can Music Listening Help Reduce Muscle Tension and Improve Movement Quality? (Journal article - 2021)
  3. Shared acoustic codes underlie emotional communication in music and speech—Evidence from deep transfer learning (Journal article - 2017)
  4. Introducing the Geneva music-induced affect checklist (GEMIAC): A brief instrument for the rapid assessment of musically induced emotions (Journal article - 2017)
  5. MUSEBAQ: A Modular Tool for Music Research to Assess Musicianship, Musical Capacity, Music Preferences and Motivations for Music Use (Journal article - 2018)
  6. Measuring the Structural Complexity of Music: From Structural Segmentations to the Automatic Evaluation of Models for Music Generation (Journal article - 2022)
  7. Music therapy interventions for eating disorders: Lack of robust evidence and recommendations for future research (Journal article - 2022)
  8. Background Music and Cognitive Task Performance: A Systematic Review of Task, Music, and Population Impact (Journal article - 2022)
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2023

‘Talking’ about Music

Lamont, A., Coutinho, E., & Bannister, S. (2023). ‘Talking’ about Music. In Unknown Book (pp. 230-254). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. doi:10.5040/9781501387302.0023

DOI
10.5040/9781501387302.0023
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2022

2021

POLYHYMNIA Mood - Empowering people to cope with depression through music listening

Coutinho, E., Alshukri, A., de Berardinis, J., & Dowrick, C. (2021). POLYHYMNIA Mood - Empowering people to cope with depression through music listening. In UBICOMP/ISWC '21 ADJUNCT: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2021 ACM INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON PERVASIVE AND UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2021 ACM INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON WEARABLE COMPUTERS (pp. 188-193). doi:10.1145/3460418.3479334

DOI
10.1145/3460418.3479334
Conference Paper

Audição musical e performance cognitiva

Coutinho, E., & Cheah, Y. -T. (2021). Audição musical e performance cognitiva. In Â. Martingo (Ed.), Musica Humana. V. N. Famalicão, Portugal: Húmus.

Chapter

Music and Hypertonia: Can Music Listening Help Reduce Muscle Tension and Improve Movement Quality?

Van Criekinge, T., D'Aout, K., O'Brien, J., & Coutinho, E. (2021). Music and hypertonia: can music listening help reduce muscle tension and improve movement quality?. Music & Science, 4, 1-12. doi:10.1177/20592043211015353

DOI
10.1177/20592043211015353
Journal article

POLYHYMNIA: empowering people to cope with depression with music

Coutinho, E., & Dowrick, C. (2021, July 28). POLYHYMNIA: empowering people to cope with depression with music. In 16th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. Sheffield, UK.

Conference Paper

2020

'Talking’ about music - The emotional content of comments on YouTube videos

Lamont, A., Bannister, S., Coutinho, E., & Egermann, H. (2020). 'Talking’ about music - The emotional content of comments on YouTube videos. In J. Freitas, & J. F. Porfírio (Eds.), Like, share and subscribe: music and cyberculture before and after the new decade (pp. 14-15). Lisbon, Portugal.

Conference Paper

The impact of background music on cognitive task performance: a systematic review protocol.

Cheah, Y., Spitzer, M., & Coutinho, E. (2020). The impact of background music on cognitive task performance: a systematic review protocol.: The impact of background music on cognitive task performance: a systematic review protocol. (CRD42020207193). UK: PROSPERO - International prospective register of systematic reviews. Retrieved from https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42020207193

Report

THE MULTIPLE VOICES OF MUSICAL EMOTIONS: SOURCE SEPARATION FOR IMPROVING MUSIC EMOTION RECOGNITION MODELS AND THEIR INTERPRETABILITY

de Berardinis, J., Cangelosi, A., & Coutinho, E. (2020). THE MULTIPLE VOICES OF MUSICAL EMOTIONS: SOURCE SEPARATION FOR IMPROVING MUSIC EMOTION RECOGNITION MODELS AND THEIR INTERPRETABILITY. In Proceedings of the 21st International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2020 (pp. 764-770).

Conference Paper

2019

Effect of music listening on hypertonia in neurologically impaired patients—systematic review

Van Criekinge, T., D'Aout, K. G. G., O'Brien, J., & Coutinho, E. (2019). Effect of music listening on hypertonia in neurologically impaired patients - systematic review. PeerJ, 7. doi:10.7717/peerj.8228

DOI
10.7717/peerj.8228
Journal article

The influence of sound-based interventions on motor behaviour after stroke: a systematic review

Van Criekinge, T., D'Aout, K., O'Brien, J., & Coutinho, E. (2019). The influence of sound-based interventions on motor behaviour after stroke: a systematic review. Frontiers in Neurology, 10. doi:10.3389/fneur.2019.01141

DOI
10.3389/fneur.2019.01141
Journal article

Dynamic Difficulty Awareness Training for Continuous Emotion Prediction

Zhang, Z., Han, J., Coutinho, E., & Schuller, B. W. (2019). Dynamic Difficulty Awareness Training for Continuous Emotion Prediction. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 21(5), 1289-1301. doi:10.1109/TMM.2018.2871949

DOI
10.1109/TMM.2018.2871949
Journal article

Singing and Emotion

Coutinho, E., Scherer, K. R., & Dibben, N. (2019). Singing and Emotion. In The Oxford Handbook of Singing (pp. 296-314). Oxford University Press (OUP). doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199660773.013.006

DOI
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199660773.013.006
Chapter

2018

PlatFORM. Highlights

Urbano Gutiérrez, R., Wanner, A., & Koeck, M. (2018). PlatFORM. Highlights.

Media

PlatFORM @ TATE Liverpool

Urbano Gutiérrez, R., Wanner, A., Coutinho, E., Szabó, E., & Costabile, I. (2018, September 22). PlatFORM @ TATE Liverpool (No. Of Pieces: 2) [Exhibition]. TATE Liverpool.

Exhibition

Do individual differences influence moment-by-moment reports of emotion perceived in music and speech prosody?

Dibben, N., Coutinho, E., A. Vilar, J., & Estévez-Pérez, G. (2018). Do individual differences influence moment-by-moment reports of emotion perceived in music and speech prosody?. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 12. doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00184

DOI
10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00184
Journal article

2017

Deep Recurrent Music Writer: Memory-enhanced Variational Autoencoder-based Musical Score Composition and an Objective Measure

Sabathé, R., Coutinho, E., & Schuller, B. W. (2017). Deep Recurrent Music Writer: Memory-enhanced Variational Autoencoder-based Musical Score Composition and an Objective Measure. In 2017 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (pp. 3467-3474). Anchorage, AK, USA, USA: IEEE. doi:10.1109/IJCNN.2017.7966292

DOI
10.1109/IJCNN.2017.7966292
Conference Paper

Introducing the Geneva music-induced affect checklist (GEMIAC): A brief instrument for the rapid assessment of musically induced emotions

Coutinho, E., & Scherer, K. R. (2017). Introducing the GEneva Music-Induced Affect Checklist (GEMIAC): A Brief Instrument for the Rapid Assessment of Musically Induced Emotions. Music Perception, 34(4), 371-386. doi:10.1525/MP.2017.34.4.371

DOI
10.1525/MP.2017.34.4.371
Journal article

2016

Assessing the Prosody of Non-Native Speakers of English: Measures and Feature Sets

Coutinho, E., Hönig, F., Zhang, Y., Hantke, S., Batliner, A., Nöth, E., & Schuller, B. (2016). Assessing the Prosody of Non-Native Speakers of English: Measures and Feature Sets. In N. Calzolari, K. Choukri, T. Declerck, S. Goggi, M. Grobelnik, B. Maegaard, . . . S. Piperidis (Eds.), Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016) (pp. 23-28). Paris, France: European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

Conference Paper

Assessing the Prosody of Non-Native Speakers of English: Measures and Feature Sets

Coutinho, E., Honig, F., Zhang, Y., Hantke, S., Batliner, A., Noeth, E., & Schuller, B. (2016). Assessing the Prosody of Non-Native Speakers of English: Measures and Feature Sets. In LREC 2016 - TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION (pp. 1328-1332). Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/

Conference Paper

Frontiers in Psychology

Perlovsky, L., Coutinho, E., & Wilkins, R. W. (Eds.) (2016). Frontiers in Psychology (Vol. 7). Frontiers Media. Retrieved from http://journal.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/3083/music-cognition#overview

Edited special journal issue

The INTERSPEECH 2016 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge: Deception, Sincerity & Native Language

Schuller, B., Steidl, S., Batliner, A., Hirschberg, J., Burgoon, J. K., Baird, A., . . . Evanini, K. (2016). The INTERSPEECH 2016 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge: Deception, Sincerity & Native Language. In 17TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (INTERSPEECH 2016), VOLS 1-5 (pp. 2001-2005). doi:10.21437/Interspeech.2016-129

DOI
10.21437/Interspeech.2016-129
Conference Paper

2015

On Rater Reliability and Agreement Based Dynamic Active Learning

Zhang, Y., Coutinho, E., Schuller, B., Zhang, Z., & Adam, M. (2015). On Rater Reliability and Agreement Based Dynamic Active Learning. In 2015 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AFFECTIVE COMPUTING AND INTELLIGENT INTERACTION (ACII) (pp. 70-76). Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/

Conference Paper

Estimating Biosignals using the Human Voice

Coutinho, E., & Schuller, B. (2015). Estimating Biosignals using the Human Voice. Science, 350(6256), 114:48-50. Retrieved from http://science.sciencemag.org/content/350/6256/114.3

Journal article

Agreement-based Dynamic Active Learning with Least and Medium Certainty Query Strategy

Zhang, Y., Coutinho, E., Zhang, Z., Quan, C., & Schuller, B. (2015). Agreement-based Dynamic Active Learning with Least and Medium Certainty Query Strategy. In A. Krishnamurthy, A. Ramdas, N. Balcan, & A. Singh (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2015). JMLR W&CP volume 37 (pp. 1-5). Lille, France.

Conference Paper

Automatic recognition of emotional dimensions in singing

Eyben, F., Coutinho, E., & Schuller, B. (2015). Automatic recognition of emotional dimensions in singing. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Music and Emotion (ICME’4) (pp. 1). International Conference on Music and Emotion.

Conference Paper

Cooperative Learning and Its Application to Emotion Recognition From Speech

Zhang, Z., Coutinho, E., Deng, J., & Schuller, B. (2015). Cooperative Learning and Its Application to Emotion Recognition From Speech. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 23(1), 115-126. doi:10.1109/TASLP.2014.2375558

DOI
10.1109/TASLP.2014.2375558
Journal article

Does my Speech Rock? Automatic Assessment of Public Speaking Skills

Azais, L., Payan, A., Sun, T., Vidal, G., Zhang, T., Coutinho, E., . . . Schuller, B. (2015). Does my Speech Rock? Automatic Assessment of Public Speaking Skills. In 16TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (INTERSPEECH 2015), VOLS 1-5 (pp. 2519-2523). Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/

Conference Paper

2014

Transfer Learning Emotion Manifestation Across Music and Speech

Coutinho, E., Deng, J., & Schuller, B. (2014). Transfer Learning Emotion Manifestation Across Music and Speech. In PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2014 INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS (IJCNN) (pp. 3592-3598). Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/

Conference Paper

Singing and Emotion

Coutinho, E., Scherer, K. R., & Dibben, N. (2014). Singing and Emotion. In G. Welch, D. M. Howard, & J. Nix (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Singing (pp. 1-19). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199660773.013.006

DOI
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199660773.013.006
Chapter

Psychomusicology: a journal of research in music cognition

Coutinho, E., & Timmers, R. (Eds.) (2014). Psychomusicology: a journal of research in music cognition (Vol. 24). American Psychological Association.

Edited special journal issue

Letter from the guest editors.

Timmers, R., & Coutinho, E. (n.d.). Letter from the guest editors.. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain, 24(1), 2-3. doi:10.1037/pmu0000039

DOI
10.1037/pmu0000039
Journal article

The Effects of Expert Musical Training on the Perception of Emotions in Bach’s Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin No. 1 in G Minor (BWV 1001).

Spitzer, M., & Coutinho, E. (2014). The Effects of Expert Musical Training on the Perception of Emotions in Bach’s Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin No. 1 in G Minor (BWV 1001).. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind and Brain, 24(1), 35-57. doi:10.1037/pmu0000036

DOI
10.1037/pmu0000036
Journal article

2013

Emotions Perceived in Music and Speech: Relationships Between Psychoacoustic Features, Second-by-second Subjective Feelings of Emotion and Physiological Responses

Coutinho, E., & Dibben, N. J. (2013). Emotions Perceived in Music and Speech: Relationships Between Psychoacoustic Features, Second-by-second Subjective Feelings of Emotion and Physiological Responses. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music and Emotion (ICME’3), Jyväskylä, Finland, June 11-15 (pp. 1).

Conference Paper

International Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies

Coutinho, E., Fantini, B., & Scherer, K. R. (Eds.) (2013). International Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies (Vol. 7). Retrieved from http://musicstudies.org/all-issues/volume-7-2013/

Edited special journal issue

2012

2011

2010

A Neural Network Model for the Prediction of Musical Emotions

Coutinho, E., & Cangelosi, A. (2010). A Neural Network Model for the Prediction of Musical Emotions. In S. Nefti-Meziani, & J. Gray (Eds.), Advances in Cognitive Systems (pp. 331-368). IET. doi:10.1049/PBCE071E_ch

DOI
10.1049/PBCE071E_ch
Chapter

A neural network model for the prediction of musical emotions

Coutinho, E., & Cangelosi, A. (2010). A neural network model for the prediction of musical emotions. In Advances in Cognitive Systems (pp. 333-370). Institution of Engineering and Technology. doi:10.1049/pbce071e_ch12

DOI
10.1049/pbce071e_ch12
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2005

Artificial Emotion - Simulating Affective Behaviour

Coutinho, E., Miranda, E. R., & Cangelosi, A. (2005). Artificial Emotion - Simulating Affective Behaviour. In Proceedings of the Post-cognitivist Psychology Conference (pp. 7). Glasgow, Scotland.

Conference Paper

Evolving Emotional Behaviour for Expressive Performance of Music

Coutinho, E., Miranda, E. R., & Silva, P. D. (2005). Evolving Emotional Behaviour for Expressive Performance of Music. In T. Panayiotopoulos, J. Gratch, R. Aylett, D. Ballin, P. Olivier, & T. Rist (Eds.), Unknown Conference Vol. 3661 (pp. 147).

Conference Paper