Scaling behaviour in music and cortical dynamics interplay to mediate music listening pleasure.

ABSTRACT: The pleasure of music listening regulates daily behaviour and promotes rehabilitation in healthcare. Human behaviour emerges from the modulation of spontaneous timely coordinated neuronal networks. Too little is known about the physical properties and neurophysiological underpinnings of music to understand its perception, its health benefit and to deploy personalized or standardized music-therapy. Prior studies revealed how macroscopic neuronal and music patterns scale with frequency according to a 1/f^α relationship, where a is the scaling exponent. Here, we examine how this hallmark in music and neuronal dynamics relate to pleasure. Using electroencephalography, electrocardiography and behavioural data in healthy subjects, we show that music listening decreases the scaling expo

SUBMITTER: Teixeira Borges AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6881362 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature