Background Music Dependent Reduction of Aversive Perception and Its Relation to P3 Amplitude Reduction and Increased Heart Rate

Matsuo, Masahiro; Masuda, Fumi; Sumi, Yukiyoshi; Takahashi, Masahiro; Yoshimura, Atsushi; Yamada, Naoto; Kadotani, Hiroshi

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2019.00184

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“…In fact, states of arousal were shown to be positively associated with an increased susceptibility toward (pleasant) chills (Mori & Iwanaga, 2014) which might be an explanation why no decrease in chill frequency and intensity was detectable when harsh sounds were inserted in music pieces. In contrast to Standley (1991), Matsuo et al (2019) could not find an effect of relaxing music on the experience of unpleasant acoustic stimuli. Although chills were reported during the excerpts by Barber and Albinoni in line with previous work, no passages could be identified where chills occurred more frequently (Guhn et al, 2007).…”

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Written in the face? Facial expressions during pleasant and unpleasant chills

Klepzig

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Lotze

et al. 2022

Psychology of Music

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Chills are emotional peaks especially in response toward acoustic stimuli. In the present study, we examined facial expressions associated with pleasant and unpleasant chill experiences during music and harsh sounds by measuring electromyographic activity from facial corrugator and zygomatic muscles. A rubber bulb could be pressed by the participants to report chill intensities. During harsh sounds, increased activation of both corrugator and zygomatic muscle was observed. Zygomatic muscle activity was even more pronounced when a chill experience was reported during such sounds. In contrast, pleasant chill experiences during music were associated with slightly increased corrugator activity compared with absent chills. Our data suggest that harsh sounds produce a painful facial expression that is even intensified when a chill experience is reported. Increased corrugator activity during chills toward music might refer to states of being moved. The results are discussed in the light of a proposed role of the chill in regulating social behavior. Our results suggest that recording facial muscle activity can be a valuable method for the examination of pleasant and unpleasant peak emotions induced by acoustic stimuli.

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Written in the face? Facial expressions during pleasant and unpleasant chills

Klepzig

Stender

Lotze

et al. 2022

Psychology of Music

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“…Alternatively, differences in auditory ERP morphology between the WM and Intervening tasks may have resulted from acoustic differences between the stimuli (tone complexes in the WM task, white noise bursts in the Intervening task). The data in Matsuo et al (2019) showed that P3 amplitudes were larger in ERPs elicited by white noise bursts than pure tones, and parallels can be drawn between Intervening task ERPs in this study and the cortical responses to noise-like fricative phonemes in Khalighinejad et al (2017).…”

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Patterns of information segregation during working memory and attention revealed by dual-task interference in behavior, pupillometry, and EEG

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Perception and navigation frequently require us to maintain sensory information in memory, while also processing new sensory inputs as they arise. Recent fMRI research has uncovered regions in human frontal cortex that coordinate these diverse processes. Across various attention and working memory (WM) tasks, these regions can be separated into two distinct networks. Each shows a response preference for either auditory or visual stimuli, yet in addition, each can be flexibly recruited based on the information domain (i.e., temporal or spatial) of the task, regardless of sensory modality. Motivated by the sensory and functional specializations these networks display, we investigated whether dual-task interference is affected by similarity between the tasks in sensory modality (auditory or visual) and information domain. Participants performed a novel dual-task paradigm involving different combinations of WM and Intervening tasks, while two temporally sensitive physiological signals, pupillometry and electroencephalography (EEG), were measured. Convergent evidence from behavioral performance, pupil dilation amplitudes, and event-related potentials (ERPs) indicates that dual-task interference is greatest when the tasks match in both sensory modality and information domain. However, differences also arise in the patterns of dual-task interference across these metrics, highlighting the differential strengths and sensitivities of each. The results are consistent with increased interference when multiple tasks compete for shared cognitive control resources due to a common sensory modality or information domain.

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“…In my opinion, we should concentrate on specific design elements such as lighting design, acoustics, color, and material-all aspects that architects and designers believe have psychological impact. But if data analytics is beginning to measure the effects of music on mood, wellbeing, and health (Matsuo et al, 2019;Dingle et al, 2021); why suppose we can not apply data analytics to specific sensory elements of buildings?…”

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Atmosphere, mood, and scientific explanation

Kirsh

2023

Front. Comput. Sci.

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In this article, I consider how scientific theories may explain architectural atmosphere. Architects use atmosphere to refer to a holistic, emergent property of a space that partly determines the mood of inhabitants. It is said to be a “subtle, intangible, ambient quality of a place” that also significantly shapes the way we interact with a space. It is caused by the way light, texture, materials, layout, geometry, acoustics, smell, and other perceptual properties influence affect. But it goes beyond these individually because of non-linear interactions between them. In sections one and two, I explain what an externalist account of the atmosphere would look like. This is an interpretation that objectifies the atmosphere, treating it as a complex causal property of buildings and spaces, accessible to scientific study through ethnographic research, through quantifying and minutely observing and recording humans and the buildings they are in, and then using machine learning and statistical analyses to identify correlations. The goal is to push the identification of the underlying external attributes as far as possible, ultimately to where a machine might enter a room, move around, and then label its atmosphere. In section three, I explore an internalist or subjectivist account of the atmosphere. This is the position that pushes back on machine identification of atmospheres. A subjectivist interpretation is harder to study scientifically because it involves knowing so much about the inner state and the history of a person. Culture, incoming mood, prior experience and associations, interests, tasks, social interaction, and more may all affect mood. Section four explores the frequently underestimated role—on emotion and space comprehension—played by the tasks that occupants perform while in a space, and the way their surrounding social and technological context intrudes on their encounter. I introduce and defend the view that tasks, social context, and nearby technology situate a person in a different environment than when they are inactive. This complicates the search for atmosphere. Nonetheless, I end on an optimistic note that there may yet be a place for atmosphere in the neuroscience of architecture, but it will be much different than our current thinking.

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Background Music Dependent Reduction of Aversive Perception and Its Relation to P3 Amplitude Reduction and Increased Heart Rate

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Written in the face? Facial expressions during pleasant and unpleasant chills

Written in the face? Facial expressions during pleasant and unpleasant chills

Patterns of information segregation during working memory and attention revealed by dual-task interference in behavior, pupillometry, and EEG

Atmosphere, mood, and scientific explanation

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