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SUBMITTER: Trost W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3491764 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Trost Wiebke W Ethofer Thomas T Zentner Marcel M Vuilleumier Patrik P
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 20111215 12
Music evokes complex emotions beyond pleasant/unpleasant or happy/sad dichotomies usually investigated in neuroscience. Here, we used functional neuroimaging with parametric analyses based on the intensity of felt emotions to explore a wider spectrum of affective responses reported during music listening. Positive emotions correlated with activation of left striatum and insula when high-arousing (Wonder, Joy) but right striatum and orbitofrontal cortex when low-arousing (Nostalgia, Tenderness). ...[more]