Alexsandra Kovacevich and David Huron at Ohio State University have published a research paper about the content and comments of ASMR videos.
Their paper is titled, “Two Studies of ASMR: The Relationship between ASMR and Music-Induced Frisson” and was published in Fall 2018 in the peer-reviewed journal, Empirical Musicology Review.
In this paper, the authors report the results of two studies. The first study analyzed the content of ASMR videos and the second study analyzed comments about ASMR videos.
Below is a summary of their paper, followed by links to the published manuscript, supplementary materials, and a commentary article.
William Halimou (Will) is a 4th year undergraduate student at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, USA. He is a neuroscience major with a strong interest in music composition and ASMR.
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