Investigating the type and strength of emotion with music: An fMRI study

Okuya, Teruhisa; Date, Toshihiko; Fukino, Miwa; Iwakawa, Mikio; Sasabe, Kohji; Nagao, Kumi; Moriizumi, Yuki; Akiyama, Iwaki; Watanabe, Yoshiaki

doi:10.1250/ast.38.120

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“…We recorded the T1-weighted structural images (echo time [TE] = 4 ms, repetition time [TR] = 9.4 ms, flip angle = 8, field of view [FOV] = 256 × 256 mm, 192 slices, inversion time [TI] = 1013 ms, voxel size = 1 × 1 × 1 mm) and echo-planar whole-brain volumes (30 slices; TR = 3000 ms; TE: 50 ms; 4 mm thickness with a 1 mm gap; transverse; FOV: 192 × 192 mm; matrix size: 64 × 64; fractional anisotropy [FA]: 90°) as functional imaging data on a 1.5-tesla MRI scanner (Echelon Vega, Hitachi Medical, Chiba, Japan), according to a previously reported protocol ( Okuya et al. 2017 ).…”

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Music in Noise: Neural Correlates Underlying Noise Tolerance in Music-Induced Emotion

Murai

Yang

Hiryu

et al. 2021

Cerebral Cortex Communications

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Music can be experienced in various acoustic qualities. In this study, we investigated how the acoustic quality of the music can influence strong emotional experiences, such as musical chills, and the neural activity. The music’s acoustic quality was controlled by adding noise to musical pieces. Participants listened to clear and noisy musical pieces and pressed a button when they experienced chills. We estimated neural activity in response to chills under both clear and noisy conditions using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The behavioral data revealed that compared with the clear condition, the noisy condition dramatically decreased the number of chills and duration of chills. The fMRI results showed that under both noisy and clear conditions the supplementary motor area, insula, and superior temporal gyrus were similarly activated when participants experienced chills. The involvement of these brain regions may be crucial for music-induced emotional processes under the noisy as well as the clear condition. In addition, we found a decrease in the activation of the right superior temporal sulcus when experiencing chills under the noisy condition, which suggests that music-induced emotional processing is sensitive to acoustic quality.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Music in Noise: Neural Correlates Underlying Noise Tolerance in Music-Induced Emotion

Murai

Yang

Hiryu

et al. 2021

Cerebral Cortex Communications

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“…However, many studies have simply explored how different emotions are processed, such as sadness, happiness, and fear (Bogert et al, 2016). For example, Okuya et al (2017) identified the left thalamus being heavily involved in responses to sad music. However, with consideration to our model of sad states, having one categorization of "sad" will not produce a comprehensive understanding of the neurological behavior in response to sad music.…”

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Analysis and Classification of Music-Induced States of Sadness

2022

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The enjoyment and pleasure derived from sad music has sparked fascination among researchers due to its seemingly paradoxical nature in producing positive affect. Research is yet to develop a comprehensive understanding of this “paradox.” Contradictory findings have resulted in a great variability within the literature, meaning results and interpretations can be difficult to derive. Consequently, this review collated the current literature, seeking to utilize the variability in the findings to propose a model of differential sad states, providing a means for past and future findings to be interpreted. The proposed model is based on theoretical understanding, as such it requires full empirical support. Comparisons to alternative models, theoretical, clinical, and cognitive implications, as well as future directions are discussed.

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