While listening to sad rather than happy music, people are more likely to perceive a spoken work as mourning rather than morning. This best illustrates that perception is influenced by

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The fact that listening to sad music influences perception suggests that top-down processing, the role that our expectations and context play in our interpretation of sensory information, is at work. In this case, the emotional state induced by the music influences the interpretation of the spoken word, leading to the perception of mourning instead of morning.

While Listening to Sad Rather Than Happy Music, People Are