Neural correlates of emotional responses to music: an EEG study

Daly, I., Malik, A., Hwang, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3243-3869, Roesch, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8913-4173, Weaver, J., Kirke, A., Williams, D., Miranda, E. and Nasuto, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9414-9049 (2014) Neural correlates of emotional responses to music: an EEG study. Neuroscience Letters, 573. pp. 52-57. ISSN 0304-3940 doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2014.05.003

Abstract/Summary

This paper presents an EEG study into the neural correlates of music-induced emotions. We presented participants with a large dataset containing musical pieces in different styles, and asked them to report on their induced emotional responses. We found neural correlates of music-induced emotion in a number of frequencies over the pre-frontal cortex. Additionally, we found a set of patterns of functional connectivity, defined by inter-channel coherence measures,to be significantly different between groups of music-induced emotional responses.