Listening to Rhythmic Music Reduces Connectivity within the Basal Ganglia and the Reward System.

ABSTRACT: Music can trigger emotional responses in a more direct way than any other stimulus. In particular, music-evoked pleasure involves brain networks that are part of the reward system. Furthermore, rhythmic music stimulates the basal ganglia and may trigger involuntary movements to the beat. In the present study, we created a continuously playing rhythmic, dance floor-like composition where the ambient noise from the MR scanner was incorporated as an additional instrument of rhythm. By treating this continuous stimulation paradigm as a variant of resting-state, the data was analyzed with stochastic dynamic causal modeling (sDCM), which was used for exploring functional dependencies and interactions between core areas of auditory perception, rhythm processing, and reward processing. The sDCM mo

SUBMITTER: Brodal HP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5368249 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature