The music of your emotions: neural substrates involved in detection of emotional correspondence between auditory and visual music actions.

In humans, emotions from music serve important communicative roles. Despite a growing interest in the neural basis of music perception, action and emotion, the majority of previous studies in this area have focused on the auditory aspects of music performances. Here we investigate how the brain proc...

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Main Authors: Karin Petrini, Frances Crabbe, Carol Sheridan, Frank E Pollick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3084768?pdf=render
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spelling doaj-0b60e91412b34bc1a48880f0f5ed35d72020-11-25T02:39:01ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032011-01-0164e1916510.1371/journal.pone.0019165The music of your emotions: neural substrates involved in detection of emotional correspondence between auditory and visual music actions.Karin PetriniFrances CrabbeCarol SheridanFrank E PollickIn humans, emotions from music serve important communicative roles. Despite a growing interest in the neural basis of music perception, action and emotion, the majority of previous studies in this area have focused on the auditory aspects of music performances. Here we investigate how the brain processes the emotions elicited by audiovisual music performances. We used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging, and in Experiment 1 we defined the areas responding to audiovisual (musician's movements with music), visual (musician's movements only), and auditory emotional (music only) displays. Subsequently a region of interest analysis was performed to examine if any of the areas detected in Experiment 1 showed greater activation for emotionally mismatching performances (combining the musician's movements with mismatching emotional sound) than for emotionally matching music performances (combining the musician's movements with matching emotional sound) as presented in Experiment 2 to the same participants. The insula and the left thalamus were found to respond consistently to visual, auditory and audiovisual emotional information and to have increased activation for emotionally mismatching displays in comparison with emotionally matching displays. In contrast, the right thalamus was found to respond to audiovisual emotional displays and to have similar activation for emotionally matching and mismatching displays. These results suggest that the insula and left thalamus have an active role in detecting emotional correspondence between auditory and visual information during music performances, whereas the right thalamus has a different role.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3084768?pdf=render
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author Karin Petrini
Frances Crabbe
Carol Sheridan
Frank E Pollick
spellingShingle Karin Petrini
Frances Crabbe
Carol Sheridan
Frank E Pollick
The music of your emotions: neural substrates involved in detection of emotional correspondence between auditory and visual music actions.
PLoS ONE
author_facet Karin Petrini
Frances Crabbe
Carol Sheridan
Frank E Pollick
author_sort Karin Petrini
title The music of your emotions: neural substrates involved in detection of emotional correspondence between auditory and visual music actions.
title_short The music of your emotions: neural substrates involved in detection of emotional correspondence between auditory and visual music actions.
title_full The music of your emotions: neural substrates involved in detection of emotional correspondence between auditory and visual music actions.
title_fullStr The music of your emotions: neural substrates involved in detection of emotional correspondence between auditory and visual music actions.
title_full_unstemmed The music of your emotions: neural substrates involved in detection of emotional correspondence between auditory and visual music actions.
title_sort music of your emotions: neural substrates involved in detection of emotional correspondence between auditory and visual music actions.
publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
series PLoS ONE
issn 1932-6203
publishDate 2011-01-01
description In humans, emotions from music serve important communicative roles. Despite a growing interest in the neural basis of music perception, action and emotion, the majority of previous studies in this area have focused on the auditory aspects of music performances. Here we investigate how the brain processes the emotions elicited by audiovisual music performances. We used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging, and in Experiment 1 we defined the areas responding to audiovisual (musician's movements with music), visual (musician's movements only), and auditory emotional (music only) displays. Subsequently a region of interest analysis was performed to examine if any of the areas detected in Experiment 1 showed greater activation for emotionally mismatching performances (combining the musician's movements with mismatching emotional sound) than for emotionally matching music performances (combining the musician's movements with matching emotional sound) as presented in Experiment 2 to the same participants. The insula and the left thalamus were found to respond consistently to visual, auditory and audiovisual emotional information and to have increased activation for emotionally mismatching displays in comparison with emotionally matching displays. In contrast, the right thalamus was found to respond to audiovisual emotional displays and to have similar activation for emotionally matching and mismatching displays. These results suggest that the insula and left thalamus have an active role in detecting emotional correspondence between auditory and visual information during music performances, whereas the right thalamus has a different role.
url http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3084768?pdf=render
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