Spectral Characteristics of EEG during Active Emotional Musical Performance.

ABSTRACT: The research on neural correlates of intentional emotion communication by the music performer is still limited. In this study, we attempted to evaluate EEG patterns recorded from musicians who were instructed to perform a simple piano score while manipulating their manner of play to express specific contrasting emotions and self-rate the emotion they reflected on the scales of arousal and valence. In the emotional playing task, participants were instructed to improvise variations in a manner by which the targeted emotion is communicated. In contrast, in the neutral playing task, participants were asked to play the same piece precisely as written to obtain data for control over general patterns of motor and sensory activation during playing. The spectral analysis of the signal was applied a

SUBMITTER: Pousson JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8620396 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature