Investigating emotion with music: An fMRI study
Max Planck Society · Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Abstract
The present study used pleasant and unpleasant music to evoke emotion and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to determine neural correlates of emotion processing. Unpleasant (permanently dissonant) music contrasted with pleasant (consonant) music showed activations of amygdala, hippocampus, parahippocampal gyrus, and temporal poles. These structures have previously been implicated in the emotional processing of stimuli with (negative) emotional valence; the present data show that a cerebral network comprising these structures can be activated during the perception of auditory (musical) information. Pleasant (contrasted to unpleasant) music showed activations of the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG,…
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Authors
5- SKStefan KoelschCorresponding
Max Planck Society, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
- THThomas Hans Fritz
Max Planck Society, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
- DYD. Yves von Cramon
Max Planck Society, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
- KMKarsten Müller
Max Planck Society, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
- ADAngela D. Friederici
Max Planck Society, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Topics & keywords
- Psychology
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging
- Inferior frontal gyrus
- Insula
- Premotor cortex
- Neuroscience
- Perception
- Cognitive psychology