Music is arguably one of the most potent natural rewards. In this thesis, we examine the brain's response to music through different imaging methods to investigate how musical sounds can be interpreted as pleasurable by a listener. First, we examine the hypothesis that rewarding responses to music are related to emotional arousal. Using self-selected "chill-inducing" music, we measure emotional arousal objectively through psychophysiological measures of autonomic nervous system activity, revealing a robust and direct positive relationship between increases in emotion and self-reported pleasure. Next, we investigate the hypothesis that the intense emotional responses to music may be targeting the brain's reward systems (mesostriatal dopa...
This thesis investigates the neurochemical and social impacts of music and music-related activities ...
Music is a vibrational event that impinges upon the body and the brain. As such, it can induce bodil...
Music can induce strong subjective experience of emotions, but it is debated whether these responses...
During the past decade, research in cognitive neuroscience has tried to understand how the organized...
Music evokes complex emotions beyond pleasant/unpleasant or happy/sad dichotomies usually investigat...
Music has been important to every culture in recorded history, and is widely considered among the mo...
Listening to music is rated as one of the most pleasurable activities in human life and,in fact, lis...
Music is a universal feature of human societies: in all cultures that we know about, humans make (or...
Music evokes complex emotions beyond pleasant/unpleasant or happy/sad dichotomies usually investigat...
In humans, emotions from music serve important communicative roles. Despite a growing interest in th...
Apart from its natural relevance to cognition, music provides a window into the intimate relationshi...
To study emotional reactions to music, it is important to consider the temporal dynamics of both aff...
To study emotional reactions to music, it is important to consider the temporal dynamics of both aff...
Music can trigger emotional responses in a more direct way than any other stimulus. In particular, m...
Ventral striatal activity has been previously shown to correspond well to reward value mediated by m...
This thesis investigates the neurochemical and social impacts of music and music-related activities ...
Music is a vibrational event that impinges upon the body and the brain. As such, it can induce bodil...
Music can induce strong subjective experience of emotions, but it is debated whether these responses...
During the past decade, research in cognitive neuroscience has tried to understand how the organized...
Music evokes complex emotions beyond pleasant/unpleasant or happy/sad dichotomies usually investigat...
Music has been important to every culture in recorded history, and is widely considered among the mo...
Listening to music is rated as one of the most pleasurable activities in human life and,in fact, lis...
Music is a universal feature of human societies: in all cultures that we know about, humans make (or...
Music evokes complex emotions beyond pleasant/unpleasant or happy/sad dichotomies usually investigat...
In humans, emotions from music serve important communicative roles. Despite a growing interest in th...
Apart from its natural relevance to cognition, music provides a window into the intimate relationshi...
To study emotional reactions to music, it is important to consider the temporal dynamics of both aff...
To study emotional reactions to music, it is important to consider the temporal dynamics of both aff...
Music can trigger emotional responses in a more direct way than any other stimulus. In particular, m...
Ventral striatal activity has been previously shown to correspond well to reward value mediated by m...
This thesis investigates the neurochemical and social impacts of music and music-related activities ...
Music is a vibrational event that impinges upon the body and the brain. As such, it can induce bodil...
Music can induce strong subjective experience of emotions, but it is debated whether these responses...