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Acoustic Intensity Causes Perceived Changes in Arousal Levels in Music: An Experimental Investigation 1 1 2 Roger T. Dean , Freya Bailes *, Emery Schubert 1 MARCS Auditory Laboratories, University of Western Sydney, Milperra, New South Wales, Australia, 2 Empirical Musicology Group, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Abstract Listener perceptions of changes in the arousal expressed by classical music have been found to correlate with changes in sound intensity/loudness over time. This study manipulated the intensity profiles of different pieces of music in order to test the causal nature of this relationship. Listeners (N = 38) continuously rated their perceptions of the arousal expressed by each piece. An extract from Dvorak’s Slavonic Dance Opus 46 No 1 was used to create a variant in which the direction of change in intensity was inverted, while other features were retained. Even though it was only intensity that was inverted, perceived arousal was also inverted. The original intensity profile was also superimposed on three new pieces of music. The time variation in the perceived arousal of all pieces was similar to their intensity profile. Time series analyses revealed that intensity variation was a major influence on the arousal perception in all pieces, in spite of their stylistic diversity. Citation: Dean RT, Bailes F, Schubert E (2011) Acoustic Intensity Causes Perceived Changes in Arousal Levels in Music: An Experimental Investigation. PLoS ONE 6(4): e18591. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018591 Editor: Mark W. Greenlee, University of Regensburg, Germany Received September 14, 2010; Accepted March 13, 2011; Published April 20, 2011 Copyright: 2011 Dean et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Com