Bio Note: Julian Cespedes-Guevara carried out doctoral studies in Psychology of Music at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. His research focuses on the induction and perception of music mediated emotions, on musically evoked experiences of empathy, and on the processes of construction and communication of musical meaning. His PhD project proposed a constructionist approach that regards musical emotions as the result of a process of meaning-making, in which listeners’ emotional experiences emerge from the interaction of objective properties of the sounds, the way they signify the present situation

Affiliation: University of Sheffield and Durham University, UK