Dynamic emotional and neural responses to music depend on performance expression and listener experience.

ABSTRACT: Apart from its natural relevance to cognition, music provides a window into the intimate relationships between production, perception, experience, and emotion. Here, emotional responses and neural activity were observed as they evolved together with stimulus parameters over several minutes. Participants listened to a skilled music performance that included the natural fluctuations in timing and sound intensity that musicians use to evoke emotional responses. A mechanical performance of the same piece served as a control. Before and after fMRI scanning, participants reported real-time emotional responses on a 2-dimensional rating scale (arousal and valence) as they listened to each performance. During fMRI scanning, participants listened without reporting emotional responses. Limbic and par

SUBMITTER: Chapin H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3002933 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature