The rewarding aspects of music listening are related to degree of emotional arousal

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Salimpoor, Valorie N ^a,b,c   Benovoy, Mitchel ^b   Longo, Gregory ^b   Cooperstock, Jeremy R ^b   Zatorre, Robert J ^a,b,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Laboratoire international de recherche sur le cerveau la musique et le son Montreal   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLOOD VOLUME; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PULSE RATE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYMPATHETIC REFLEX; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BREATHING RATE; HEARING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLEASURE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BODY TEMPERATURE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; PLEASURE; RESPIRATORY RATE; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 70449441634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007487     Document Type: Article

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