Neural correlates of emotional responses to music: an EEG study

Neurosci Lett. 2014 Jun 24:573:52-7. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2014.05.003. Epub 2014 May 10.

Abstract

This paper presents an EEG study into the neural correlates of music-induced emotions. We presented participants with a large dataset containing musical pieces in different styles, and asked them to report on their induced emotional responses. We found neural correlates of music-induced emotion in a number of frequencies over the pre-frontal cortex. Additionally, we found a set of patterns of functional connectivity, defined by inter-channel coherence measures, to be significantly different between groups of music-induced emotional responses.

Keywords: EEG; Emotion; Functional connectivity; Music; Neural correlates.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Acoustic Stimulation
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Brain / physiology*
  • Brain Mapping
  • Electroencephalography
  • Emotions*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Music*
  • Young Adult