Mapping aesthetic musical emotions in the brain

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2769-2783

  Trost, Wiebke ^a,b   Ethofer, Thomas ^a,c   Zentner, Marcel ^d   Vuilleumier, Patrik ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

emotion; fMRI; music; striatum; ventro medial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HAPPINESS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INSULA; MALE; MEMORY; MUSIC; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SELF EVALUATION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TENSION; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ADULT; AFFECT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC;

EID: 84856166794     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr353     Document Type: Article

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