The music of your emotions: neural substrates involved in detection of emotional correspondence between auditory and visual music actions.

ABSTRACT: In humans, emotions from music serve important communicative roles. Despite a growing interest in the neural basis of music perception, action and emotion, the majority of previous studies in this area have focused on the auditory aspects of music performances. Here we investigate how the brain processes the emotions elicited by audiovisual music performances. We used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging, and in Experiment 1 we defined the areas responding to audiovisual (musician's movements with music), visual (musician's movements only), and auditory emotional (music only) displays. Subsequently a region of interest analysis was performed to examine if any of the areas detected in Experiment 1 showed greater activation for emotionally mismatching performances (combining t

SUBMITTER: Petrini K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3084768 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature