Abstract
It is known that people who have strong experiences related to sound are large in number (Oode et. al., 2006), and therefore we assume there are many cases of strong experiences with listening to music. Gabrielsson et al. (2003) showed that strong experiences with music consist of 7 categories: "General characteristics" "Physical reactions and behaviours" "Perception" "Cognition" "Feelings/Emotions" "Existential and transcendental aspects" "Personal and social aspects". However the relationship between these categories is still obscure. In this light, in order to clarify such relationship, we conducted experiments focusing on physical reactions and emotions that were investigated quantitatively. This study provides meaningful information that will contribute to the quantitative clarification of strong experiences with music in the future.
