Effects of Musical Tempo on Musicians' and Non-musicians' Emotional Experience When Listening to Music.

ABSTRACT: Tempo is an important musical element that affects human's emotional processes when listening to music. However, it remains unclear how tempo and training affect individuals' emotional experience of music. To explore the neural underpinnings of the effects of tempo on music-evoked emotion, music with fast, medium, and slow tempi were collected to compare differences in emotional responses using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of neural activity between musicians and non-musicians. Behaviorally, musicians perceived higher valence in fast music than did non-musicians. The main effects of musicians and non-musicians and tempo were significant, and a near significant interaction between group and tempo was found. In the arousal dimension, the mean score of medium-tempo music was t

SUBMITTER: Liu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6243583 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature