Emotional responses to pleasant and unpleasant music correlate with activity in paralimbic brain regions

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 382-387

  Blood, Anne J ^a   Zatorre, Robert J ^a   Bermudez, Patrick ^a   Evans, Alan C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; EMOTION; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMBIC CORTEX; MUSIC; NEOCORTEX; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MUSIC; NEOCORTEX; PILOT PROJECTS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0033363505     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/7299     Document Type: Article

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