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TY - JOUR
T1 - Brain correlates of music-evoked emotions
AU - Koelsch, Stefan
PY - 2014/3
Y1 - 2014/3
N2 - Music is a universal feature of human societies, partly owing to its power to evoke strong emotions and influence moods. During the past decade, the investigation of the neural correlates of music-evoked emotions has been invaluable for the understanding of human emotion. Functional neuroimaging studies on music and emotion show that music can modulate activity in brain structures that are known to be crucially involved in emotion, such as the amygdala, nucleus accumbens, hypothalamus, hippocampus, insula, cingulate cortex and orbitofrontal cortex. The potential of music to modulate activity in these structures has important implications for the use of music in the treatment of psychiatric and neurological disorders.
AB - Music is a universal feature of human societies, partly owing to its power to evoke strong emotions and influence moods. During the past decade, the investigation of the neural correlates of music-evoked emotions has been invaluable for the understanding of human emotion. Functional neuroimaging studies on music and emotion show that music can modulate activity in brain structures that are known to be crucially involved in emotion, such as the amygdala, nucleus accumbens, hypothalamus, hippocampus, insula, cingulate cortex and orbitofrontal cortex. The potential of music to modulate activity in these structures has important implications for the use of music in the treatment of psychiatric and neurological disorders.
KW - Acoustic Stimulation
KW - Auditory Pathways
KW - Auditory Perception
KW - Brain
KW - Brain Mapping
KW - Emotions
KW - Humans
KW - Music
U2 - 10.1038/nrn3666
DO - 10.1038/nrn3666
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 24552785
VL - 15
SP - 170
EP - 180
JO - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
JF - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
SN - 1471-0048
IS - 3
ER -