The Difference between Aesthetic Appreciation of Artistic and Popular Music: Evidence from an fMRI Study.

ABSTRACT: To test the hypothesis that pleasure from artistic music is intellectual while that from popular music is physiological, this study investigated the different functional mechanisms between aesthetic appreciation of artistic and popular music using fMRI. 18 male non-musicians were scanned while they performed an aesthetic rating task for excerpts of artistic music, popular music and musical notes playing and singing (control). The rating scores of artistic and popular music excerpts were both significantly higher than that of control materials while the scores of them were not different. The fMRI results showed both artistic and popular conditions activated the VS and vmPFC, compared with control condition. When contrasted popular and artistic condition directly, we found popular music acti

SUBMITTER: Huang P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5096663 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature