Music and emotion: Electrophysiological correlates of the processing of pleasant and unpleasant music

Psychophysiology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 293-304

  Sammler, Daniela ^a   Grigutsch, Maren ^a   Fritz, Thomas ^a   Koelsch, Stefan ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dissonance; EEG; Emotion; Fm theta; Heart rate; Music

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND;

ADULT; BETA RHYTHM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSIC; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 33847653447     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2007.00497.x     Document Type: Article

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