Electrical Brain Responses to Descriptive versus Evaluative Judgments of Music

: The present study was aimed at finding neural correlates of aesthetic versus descriptive listening of the same musical cadences. Results showed that aesthetic listening generated greater right frontocentral negativities than did descriptive listening, indicating distinct cortical mechanisms for ae...

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Published in:Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2003-11, Vol.999 (1), p.155-157
Main Authors: BRATTICO, ELVIRA, JACOBSEN, THOMAS, DE BAENE, WOUTER, NAKAI, NOA, TERVANIEMI, MARI
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
aesthetics
Auditory Cortex - physiology
Auditory Perception - physiology
Esthetics - psychology
evaluative processing
event-related potentials
Evoked Potentials, Auditory - physiology
Frontal Lobe - physiology
Functional Laterality - physiology
Humans
Music - psychology
musical cadences
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Summary:: The present study was aimed at finding neural correlates of aesthetic versus descriptive listening of the same musical cadences. Results showed that aesthetic listening generated greater right frontocentral negativities than did descriptive listening, indicating distinct cortical mechanisms for aesthetic versus descriptive processing of music.
ISSN:0077-8923
1749-6632
DOI:10.1196/annals.1284.018