Emotional responses to pleasant and unpleasant music correlate with activity in paralimbic brain regions
@article{Blood1999EmotionalRT, title={Emotional responses to pleasant and unpleasant music correlate with activity in paralimbic brain regions}, author={Anne J. Blood and Robert J. Zatorre and Patrick Bermudez and Alan C. Evans}, journal={Nature Neuroscience}, year={1999}, volume={2}, pages={382-387} }
Neural correlates of the often-powerful emotional responses to music are poorly understood. Here we used positron emission tomography to examine cerebral blood flow (CBF) changes related to affective responses to music. Ten volunteers were scanned while listening to six versions of a novel musical passage varying systematically in degree of dissonance. Reciprocal CBF covariations were observed in several distinct paralimbic and neocortical regions as a function of dissonance and of perceived…
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