TABLE 6.

Stimulus properties of the 18 items featured in the final version of the MEDT.

	Target stimulus		Comparison stimulus
Instrument	Emotion	Tempo (bpm)	Emotion	Tempo (bpm)	Duration (s)	Item difficulty
Pi	A	205	H	215	10	0.2
Pi	A	205	S	93	16	3.05
Pi	A	205	T	96	16	2.77
Pi	H	215	A	205	10	–3.16
Pi	H	215	S	93	14	4.41
Pi	H	215	T	96	15	3.05
Pi	T	96	H	215	16	3
Vi	A	343	H	292	8	1.99
Vi	A	343	T	113	12	2.48
Vi	H	292	T	113	13	4.43
Vi	S	84	A	343	15	5.3
Vi	T	113	H	292	12	3.38
Vx	A	225	T	97	15	5.23
Vx	H	179	S	109	15	2.87
Vx	H	179	S	109	17	3.4
Vx	H	179	T	97	18	2.39
Vx	H	179	T	97	16	1.88
Vx	H	179	A	225	10	4.48

Tempo was calculated manually prior to editing (refer to section “Experiment 1 – Materials”) and thus serves as an estimate. “Pi” stands for piano, “Vi” stands for violin, and “Vx” stands for voice, while “A” stands for anger, “H” stands for happy, “S” stands for sad, and “T” stands for tender, “bpm” stands for beats per minute, “s” stands for seconds.