Why does particular music can be evocative, while others just flat? Scientists from Florida Atlantic University to identify key aspects of the musical acts that cause emotions to study the brain activity. The researchers recorded a pianist plays Etude in E Major, Op. 10, No. 3, the works of Frederic Chopin on the piano on the computer. This version is called "expressive performance."
The researchers also recorded the same composition using the computer, but not the result of the game a pianist. This version is called "mechanical performance".
Both versions have the elements of music that the average same-melody, harmony, rhythm, tempo, and loudness. It's just a change in the dynamics of expressive performance in tempo and loudness, a variation that is often used to evoke emotion pianist.
Participants in this trial were divided into two groups. The first group are people who are experienced in the music world, though they are not necessarily professional musicians. "These are people who have been involved in the choir or play for a band," said Edward Large, principal investigator in a study entitled Dynamic Neural Responses to Emotional and Music Performance Depend on Expression and Listener Experience. The second group are those who are inexperienced with the music.
The researchers used fMRI neural imaging, namely magnetic imaging MRI that measures blood flow-related changes in neural activity in the brain when the participants listened to both versions of the music provided.
The analysis performed to compare brain activity in response to expressive performance with mechanical performance. They also compared the response of listeners experienced with inexperienced. The effect of changes due to brain activity was also noted.
The study was divided into three stages. In the first stage, participants were asked to report their feelings. Then, go to the second stage, they are placed in the fMRI and asked to lie motionless in the scanner with their eyes closed. Participants were asked to listen to both versions of the music without reporting their emotional response. After fMRI, they reported feeling more emotional.
The study is published in PLoS One this confirms the hypothesis that expressive music played by human emotion trigger and trigger specific neural activity in the brain. Additionally, listeners who have experience an increase of activity in emotional centers in the brain.
The results showed that neural activity following the nuances of music performances directly. These activities appear in the brain that regulate motor movement to the music. Activation of the nervous system of the mirror, the system that hold an important role in understanding and imitating actions, also occur.
"Previously, it was theorized that the nervous system mirrors provide a mechanism by which the listener feel the emotion of the viewer (musician), making communication a form of musical empathy. Our results tend to support the hypothesis that, "said Large.
The researchers also recorded the same composition using the computer, but not the result of the game a pianist. This version is called "mechanical performance".
Both versions have the elements of music that the average same-melody, harmony, rhythm, tempo, and loudness. It's just a change in the dynamics of expressive performance in tempo and loudness, a variation that is often used to evoke emotion pianist.
Participants in this trial were divided into two groups. The first group are people who are experienced in the music world, though they are not necessarily professional musicians. "These are people who have been involved in the choir or play for a band," said Edward Large, principal investigator in a study entitled Dynamic Neural Responses to Emotional and Music Performance Depend on Expression and Listener Experience. The second group are those who are inexperienced with the music.
The researchers used fMRI neural imaging, namely magnetic imaging MRI that measures blood flow-related changes in neural activity in the brain when the participants listened to both versions of the music provided.
The analysis performed to compare brain activity in response to expressive performance with mechanical performance. They also compared the response of listeners experienced with inexperienced. The effect of changes due to brain activity was also noted.
The study was divided into three stages. In the first stage, participants were asked to report their feelings. Then, go to the second stage, they are placed in the fMRI and asked to lie motionless in the scanner with their eyes closed. Participants were asked to listen to both versions of the music without reporting their emotional response. After fMRI, they reported feeling more emotional.
The study is published in PLoS One this confirms the hypothesis that expressive music played by human emotion trigger and trigger specific neural activity in the brain. Additionally, listeners who have experience an increase of activity in emotional centers in the brain.
The results showed that neural activity following the nuances of music performances directly. These activities appear in the brain that regulate motor movement to the music. Activation of the nervous system of the mirror, the system that hold an important role in understanding and imitating actions, also occur.
"Previously, it was theorized that the nervous system mirrors provide a mechanism by which the listener feel the emotion of the viewer (musician), making communication a form of musical empathy. Our results tend to support the hypothesis that, "said Large.
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