Musical pleasure and musical emotions

Goupil, Louise; Aucouturier, Jean‐Julien

doi:10.1073/pnas.1900369116

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“…However, it is important to bear in mind that the musical RPE responses based on a cortico-striatal model of musical pleasure might constitute only a part of the global picture. As recently proposed by Goupil & Aucouturier 72 , the pleasurable response to music might be the result of a cooperation between the dopaminergic mesolimbic system and an emotional network involving the amygdala and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). Importantly, both the emotional network 7 and the DLPFC 73 – 75 have been shown to be critical in music-dependent encoding and retrieval of information.…”

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The impact of musical pleasure and musical hedonia on verbal episodic memory

Cardona

Rodrı́guez-Fornells

Nye

et al. 2020

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Music listening is one of the most pleasurable activities in our life. As a rewarding stimulus, pleasant music could induce long-term memory improvements for the items encoded in close temporal proximity. In the present study, we behaviourally investigated (1) whether musical pleasure and musical hedonia enhance verbal episodic memory, and (2) whether such enhancement takes place even when the pleasant stimulus is not present during the encoding. Participants (N = 100) were asked to encode words presented in different auditory contexts (highly and lowly pleasant classical music, and control white noise), played before and during (N = 49), or only before (N = 51) the encoding. The Barcelona Music Reward Questionnaire was used to measure participants’ sensitivity to musical reward. 24 h later, participants’ verbal episodic memory was tested (old/new recognition and remember/know paradigm). Results revealed that participants with a high musical reward sensitivity present an increased recollection performance, especially for words encoded in a highly pleasant musical context. Furthermore, this effect persists even when the auditory stimulus is not concurrently present during the encoding of target items. Taken together, these findings suggest that musical pleasure might constitute a helpful encoding context able to drive memory improvements via reward mechanisms.

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confidence: 97%

The impact of musical pleasure and musical hedonia on verbal episodic memory

Cardona

Rodrı́guez-Fornells

Nye

et al. 2020

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“…The power of music over human emotions is intriguing and there is an ongoing debate regarding not the mechanisms of how music can provoke pleasure but rather why music can be a rewarding experience (Goupil and Aucouturier, 2019). Music causes both marked changes in an individual's emotional state to the point of musical thrill (Goldstein, 1980) and collective emotional contagion in a social context (Egermann et al, 2011).…”

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Cortical Patterns of Pleasurable Musical Chills Revealed by High-Density EEG

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Music has the capacity to elicit strong positive feelings in humans by activating the brain's reward system. Because group emotional dynamics is a central concern of social neurosciences, the study of emotion in natural/ecological conditions is gaining interest. This study aimed to show that high-density EEG (HD-EEG) is able to reveal patterns of cerebral activities previously identified by fMRI or PET scans when the subject experiences pleasurable musical chills. We used HD-EEG to record participants (11 female, 7 male) while listening to their favorite pleasurable chill-inducing musical excerpts; they reported their subjective emotional state from low pleasure up to chills. HD-EEG results showed an increase of theta activity in the prefrontal cortex when arousal and emotional ratings increased, which are associated with orbitofrontal cortex activation localized using source localization algorithms. In addition, we identified two specific patterns of chills: a decreased theta activity in the right central region, which could reflect supplementary motor area activation during chills and may be related to rhythmic anticipation processing, and a decreased theta activity in the right temporal region, which may be related to musical appreciation and could reflect the right superior temporal gyrus activity. The alpha frontal/prefrontal asymmetry did not reflect the felt emotional pleasure, but the increased frontal beta to alpha ratio (measure of arousal) corresponded to increased emotional ratings. These results suggest that EEG may be a reliable method and a promising tool for the investigation of group musical pleasure through musical reward processing.

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“…Moreover, the striatum interacts with cortical mechanisms involved in the perception and valuation of musical stimuli. In detail, listening to music stimulates the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system, as well as the nucleus accumbens and ventral tegmental area in the mesolimbic pathway [5][6][7][8][9][10]. Additionally, listening to pleasurable music facilitates neuroplasticity, as well as movement, breathing, and heart rate, indicating the immense potential of music in the therapy for dementia and movement disorders, including Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease [11][12][13][14].…”

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Music and Dopamine – Potential in Movement Disorders

Kawahata¹,

Hasegawa²,

Kase³

2020

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Most people have been deriving pleasure from music since long ago. Music is deeply associated with human communication and language. Music had also been popular as therapy in early history. How can we feel happiness or sadness when we listen to music? Scientifically, the dorsal and ventral striatum release dopamine when listening to pleasurable music. The activity in these structures is known to associate with the reward system of the human brain. Moreover, the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system regulates our motor function, and this is the very part that is damaged in the movement disorders. In this article, we review the potent role of music from the viewpoint of the dopaminergic system. We also describe the molecular mechanism of the dopaminergic pathogenesis and suggest the potent ability of music for the therapy of Parkinson's disease and related movement disorders.

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Musical pleasure and musical emotions

Cited by 31 publications

References 24 publications

The impact of musical pleasure and musical hedonia on verbal episodic memory

The impact of musical pleasure and musical hedonia on verbal episodic memory

Cortical Patterns of Pleasurable Musical Chills Revealed by High-Density EEG

Music and Dopamine – Potential in Movement Disorders

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