TY - JOUR
T1 - Emotion processing of major, minor, and dissonant chords: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study
AU - Pallesen, Karen Johanne
AU - Brattico, Elvira
AU - Bailey, Christopher
AU - Korvenoja, Antti
AU - Koivisto, Juha
AU - Gjedde, Albert
AU - Carlson, Synnöve
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Musicians and nonmusicians listened to major, minor, and dissonant musical chords while their BOLD brain responses were registered with functional magnetic resonance imaging. In both groups of listeners, minor and dissonant chords, compared with major chords, elicited enhanced responses in several brain areas, including the amygdala, retrosplenial cortex, brain stem, and cerebellum, during passive listening but not during memorization of the chords. The results indicate that (1) neural processing in emotion-related brain areas is activated even by single chords, (2) emotion processing is enhanced in the absence of cognitive requirements, and (3) musicians and nonmusicians do not differ in their neural responses to single musical chords during passive listening.
AB - Musicians and nonmusicians listened to major, minor, and dissonant musical chords while their BOLD brain responses were registered with functional magnetic resonance imaging. In both groups of listeners, minor and dissonant chords, compared with major chords, elicited enhanced responses in several brain areas, including the amygdala, retrosplenial cortex, brain stem, and cerebellum, during passive listening but not during memorization of the chords. The results indicate that (1) neural processing in emotion-related brain areas is activated even by single chords, (2) emotion processing is enhanced in the absence of cognitive requirements, and (3) musicians and nonmusicians do not differ in their neural responses to single musical chords during passive listening.
U2 - 10.1196/annals.1360.047
DO - 10.1196/annals.1360.047
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 16597801
SN - 0077-8923
VL - 1060
SP - 450
EP - 453
JO - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
JF - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
ER -