The roles of superficial amygdala and auditory cortex in music-evoked fear and joy

NeuroImage

Volumn 81, Issue , 2013, Pages 49-60

  Koelsch, Stefan ^a,b,c   Skouras, Stavros ^a,b,c   Fritz, Thomas ^d   Herrera, Perfecto ^e   Bonhage, Corinna ^d   Küssner, Mats B ^f,g   Jacobs, Arthur M ^a,c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c Dahlem Institute for Neuroimaging of Emotion   (Germany)

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

^e UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^f KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Emotion; Fear; FMRI; Joy; Music; Superficial amygdala

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; BOLD SIGNAL; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; JOY; MALE; MUSIC; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SUPERFICIAL AMYGDALA; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; HAPPINESS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AMYGDALA; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878889780     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.05.008     Document Type: Article

References (86)

1. Adolphs R., Damasio H., Tranel D., Cooper G., Damasio A. A role for somatosensory cortices in the visual recognition of emotion as revealed by three-dimensional lesion mapping. J. Neurosci. 2000, 20:2683-2690.
2. Aggleton J., Mishkin M. Projections of the amygdala to the thalamus in the cynomolgus monkey. J. Comp. Neurol. 1984, 222:56-68.
3. Agrawal D., Timm L., Viola F.C., Debener S., Buechner A., Dengler R., Wittfoth M. ERP evidence for the recognition of emotional prosody through simulated cochlear implant strategies. BMC Neurosci. 2012, 13:113.
4. Alluri V., Toiviainen P., Jääskeläinen I.P., Glereanc E., Sams M., Brattico E. Large-scale brain networks emerge from dynamic processing of musical timbre, key and rhythm. NeuroImage 2012, 59:3677-3689.
5. Amunts K., Kedo O., Kindler M., Pieperhoff P., Mohlberg H., Shah N., Habel U., Schneider F., Zilles K. Cytoarchitectonic mapping of the human amygdala, hippocampal region and entorhinal cortex: intersubject variability and probability maps. Anat. Embryol. 2005, 210:343-352.
6. Bach D., Behrens T., Garrido L., Weiskopf N., Dolan R. Deep and superficial amygdala nuclei projections revealed in vivo by probabilistic tractography. J. Neurosci. 2011, 31:618-623.
7. Baumgartner T., Lutz K., Schmidt C., Jäncke L. The emotional power of music: how music enhances the feeling of affective pictures. Brain Res. 2006, 1075:151-164.
8. Beck A., Steer R., Brown G. Beck Depression Inventory 1993, Psychological Corporation, San Antonio, TX.
9. Behrens T., Johansen-Berg H., Woolrich M., Smith S., Wheeler-Kingshott C., Boulby P., Barker G., Sillery E., Sheehan K., Ciccarelli O., et al. Non-invasive mapping of connections between human thalamus and cortex using diffusion imaging. Nat. Neurosci. 2003, 6:750-757.
10. Blakemore S., Bristow D., Bird G., Frith C., Ward J. Somatosensory activations during the observation of touch and a case of vision-touch synaesthesia. Brain 2005, 128:1571-1583.
11. Blood A., Zatorre R. Intensely pleasurable responses to music correlate with activity in brain regions implicated in reward and emotion. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2001, 98:11818-11823.
12. Boersma P. Praat, a system for doing phonetics by computer. Glot Int. 2002, 5(9/10):341-345.
13. Brattico E., Alluri V., Bogert B., Jacobsen T., Vartiainen N., Nieminen S., Tervaniemi M. A functional MRI study of happy and sad emotions in music with and without lyrics. Front. Psychol. 2011, 2:1-16.
14. Brown S., Martinez M., Parsons L. Passive music listening spontaneously engages limbic and paralimbic systems. NeuroReport 2004, 15:2033-2037.
15. Coutinho E., Dibben N. Psychoacoustic cues to emotion in speech prosody and music. Cogn. Emot. 2012, 1-27.
16. Craig A. How do you feel-now? The anterior insula and human awareness. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 2009, 10:59-70.
17. Deichmann R., Josephs O., Hutton C., Corfield D., Turner R. Compensation of susceptibility-induced bold sensitivity losses in echo-planar fMRI imaging. NeuroImage 2002, 15:120-135.
18. Deichmann R., Gottfried J., Hutton C., Turner R. Optimized EPI for fMRI studies of the orbitofrontal cortex. NeuroImage 2003, 19:430-441.
19. Eerola T., Toiviainen P. Mir in matlab: the midi toolbox. Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval 2004, 22-27. (Citeseer).
20. Eerola T., Vuoskoski J.K. A comparison of the discrete and dimensional models of emotion in music. Psychol. Music. 2011, 39:18-49.
21. Eickhoff S., Stephan K., Mohlberg H., Grefkes C., Fink G., Amunts K., Zilles K. A new SPM toolbox for combining probabilistic cytoarchitectonic maps and functional imaging data. NeuroImage 2005, 25:1325-1335.
22. Ekman P. Basic emotions. Handbook of Cognition and Emotion 1999, 45-60. Wiley Online Library. T. Dalgleish, M. Power (Eds.).
23. Eldar E., Ganor O., Admon R., Bleich A., Hendler T. Feeling the real world: limbic response to music depends on related content. Cereb. Cortex 2007, 17:2828-2840.
24. Friston K., Buechel C., Fink G., Morris J., Rolls E., Dolan R. Psychophysiological and modulatory interactions in neuroimaging. NeuroImage 1997, 6:218-229.
25. Friston K., Ashburner J., Kiebel S., Nichols T., Penny W. Statistical Parametric Mapping: the Analysis of Functional Brain Images 2007, Elsevier Academic Press, London.
26. Fritz T., Jentschke S., Gosselin N., Sammler D., Peretz I., Turner R., Friederici A.D., Koelsch S. Universal recognition of three basic emotions in music. Curr. Biol. 2009, 19:573-576.
27. Gabrielson A., Juslin P. Emotional expression in music. Handbook of Affective Sciences 2003, 503-534. Oxford University Press, New York. R. Davidson, K. Scherer, H. Goldsmith (Eds.).
28. Geyer S., Schleicher A., Zilles K. Areas 3a, 3b, and 1 of human primary somatosensory cortex: 1. microstructural organization and interindividual variability. NeuroImage 1999, 10:63-83.
29. Goossens L., Kukolja J., Onur O., Fink G., Maier W., Griez E., Schruers K., Hurlemann R. Selective processing of social stimuli in the superficial amygdala. Hum. Brain Mapp. 2009, 30:3332-3338.
30. Gosselin N., Peretz I., Noulhiane M., Hasboun D., Beckett C., Baulac M., Samson S. Impaired recognition of scary music following unilateral temporal lobe excision. Brain 2005, 128:628-640.
31. Gosselin N., Peretz I., Johnsen E., Adolphs R. Amygdala damage impairs emotion recognition from music. Neuropsychologia 2007, 45:236-244.
32. Gosselin N., Peretz I., Hasboun D., Baulac M., Samson S. Impaired recognition of musical emotions and facial expressions following anteromedial temporal lobe excision. Cortex 2011, 47:1116-1125.
33. Heimer L., Van Hoesen G. The limbic lobe and its output channels: implications for emotional functions and adaptive behavior. Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 2006, 30:126-147.
34. Huq A., Bello J.P., Rowe R. Automated music emotion recognition: a systematic evaluation. J. New Music Res. 2010, 39:227-244.
35. Huron D. Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation 2006, The MIT Press.
36. Janata P. The neural architecture of music-evoked autobiographical memories. Cereb. Cortex 2009, 19:2579-2594.
37. Jäncke L., Mirzazade S., Shah N.J. Attention modulates activity in the primary and the secondary auditory cortex: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study in human subjects. Neurosci. Lett. 1999, 266:125-128.
38. Johnstone T., Ores Walsh K., Greischar L., Alexander A., Fox A., Davidson R., Oakes T. Motion correction and the use of motion covariates in multiple-subject fMRI analysis. Hum. Brain Mapp. 2006, 27:779-788.
39. Juslin P., Laukka P. Communication of emotions in vocal expression and music performance: different channels, same code?. Psychol. Bull. 2003, 129:770-814.
40. Juslin P., Västfjäll D. Emotional responses to music: the need to consider underlying mechanisms. Behav. Brain Sci. 2008, 31:559-575.
41. Kim Y.E., Schmidt E.M., Migneco R., Morton B.G., Richardson P., Scott J., Speck J.A., Turnbull D. Music emotion recognition: a state of the art review. In Proc. ISMIR 2010, 255-266. (Citeseer).
42. Koelsch S. Towards a neural basis of music-evoked emotions. Trends Cogn. Sci. 2010, 14:131-137.
43. Koelsch S. Towards a neural basis of music perception-a review and updated model. Front. Psychol. 2011, 2:1-20.
44. Koelsch S., Fritz T., Cramon D.Y., Müller K., Friederici A.D. Investigating emotion with music: an fMRI study. Hum. Brain Mapp. 2006, 27:239-250.
45. Koelsch S., Offermanns K., Franzke P. Music in the treatment of affective disorders: an exploratory investigation of a new method for music-therapeutic research. Music. Percept. 2010, 27:307-316.
46. Koelsch S., Siebel W.A., Fritz T. Functional neuroimaging of emotion with music. Handbook of Music and emotion: Theory, Research, Applications 2010, 313-346. Oxford University Press Oxford, Oxford. P. Juslin, J. Sloboda (Eds.).
47. Koelsch S., Fuermetz J., Sack U., Bauer K., Hohenadel M., Wiegel M., Kaisers U., Heinke W. Effects of music listening on cortisol levels and propofol consumption during spinal anesthesia. Front. Psychol. 2011, 2:1-9.
48. Krumhansl C. Cognitive Foundations of Musical Pitch 1990, Oxford University Press, USA.
49. Kumar S., von Kriegstein K., Friston K., Griffiths T.D. Features versus feelings: dissociable representations of the acoustic features and valence of aversive sounds. J. Neurosci. 2012, 32:14184-14192.
50. Laurier C. Automatic Classification of Musical Mood by Content-Based Analysis 2011, Ph.D. thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
51. LeDoux J. Emotion circuits in the brain. Ann. Rev. Neurosci. 2000, 23:155-184.
52. Lerner Y., Papo D., Zhdanov A., Belozersky L., Hendler T. Eyes wide shut: amygdala mediates eyes-closed effect on emotional experience with music. PLoS One 2009, 4:e6230.
53. Liegeois-Chauvel C., Peretz I., Babaie M., Laguitton V., Chauvel P. Contribution of different cortical areas in the temporal lobes to music processing. Brain 1998, 121:1853-1867.
54. Lohmann G., Müller K., Bosch V., Mentzel H., Hessler S., Chen L., von Cramon D.Y. Lipsia - a new software system for the evaluation of functional magnet resonance images of the human brain. Comput. Med. Imaging Graph. 2001, 25:449-457. (See also at http://www.cns.mpg.de/lipsia).
55. Lohmann G., Neumann J., Müller K., Lepsien J., Turner R. The multiple comparison problem in fMRI - a new method based on anatomical priors. Workshop on Analysis of Functional Medical Images, New York University 2008, 179-187.
56. Lundqvist L., Carlsson F., Hilmersson P., Juslin P. Emotional responses to music: experience, expression, and physiology. Psychol. Music. 2009, 37:61-90.
57. Mattheson J. Der vollkommene Capellmeister 1739/1999, Bärenreiter, London.
58. Medford N., Critchley H. Conjoint activity of anterior insular and anterior cingulate cortex: awareness and response. Brain Struct. Funct. 2010, 214:535-549.
59. Menon V., Levitin D. The rewards of music listening: response and physiological connectivity of the mesolimbic system. NeuroImage 2005, 28:175-184.
60. Menon V., Levitin D., Smith B., Lembke A., Krasnow B., Glazer D., Glover G., McAdams S. Neural correlates of timbre change in harmonic sounds. NeuroImage 2002, 17:1742-1754.
61. Mitterschiffthaler M.T., Fu C.H., Dalton J.A., Andrew C.M., Williams S.C. A functional MRI study of happy and sad affective states evoked by classical music. Hum. Brain Mapp. 2007, 28:1150-1162.
62. Morosan P., Rademacher J., Schleicher A., Amunts K., Schormann T., Zilles K. Human primary auditory cortex: cytoarchitectonic subdivisions and mapping into a spatial reference system. NeuroImage 2001, 13:684-701.
63. Moulton E., Pendse G., Morris S., Aiello-Lammens M., Becerra L., Borsook D. Segmentally arranged somatotopy within the face representation of human primary somatosensory cortex. Hum. Brain Mapp. 2009, 30:757-765.
64. Mueller K., Mildner T., Fritz T., Lepsien J., Schwarzbauer C., Schroeter M., Möller H. Investigating brain response to music: a comparison of different fMRI acquisition schemes. NeuroImage 2011, 54:337-343.
65. Mutschler I., Wieckhorst B., Speck O., Schulze-Bonhage A., Hennig J., Seifritz E., Ball T. Time scales of auditory habituation in the amygdala and cerebral cortex. Cereb. Cortex 2010, 20:2531-2539.
66. Nieuwenhuys R., Voogd J., Huijzen C.V. The Human Central Nervous System 2008, Springer, Berlin.
67. Patterson R., Uppenkamp S., Johnsrude I., Griffiths T. The processing of temporal pitch and melody information in auditory cortex. Neuron 2002, 36:767-776.
68. Peretz I. Towards a neurobiology of musical emotions. Handbook of Music and emotion: Theory, Research, Applications 2010, 99-126. Oxford University Press, Oxford. P. Juslin, J. Sloboda (Eds.).
69. Peretz I., Zatorre R. Brain organization for music processing. Ann. Rev. Psychol. 2005, 56:89-114.
70. Petrides M., Pandya D. Association fiber pathways to the frontal cortex from the superior temporal region in the rhesus monkey. J. Comp. Neurol. 1988, 273:52-66.
71. Phan K., Wager T., Taylor S., Liberzon I. Functional neuroanatomy of emotion: a meta-analysis of emotion activation studies in PET and fMRI. NeuroImage 2002, 16:331-348.
72. Plichta M., Gerdes A., Alpers G., Harnisch W., Brill S., Wieser M., Fallgatter A. Auditory cortex activation is modulated by emotion: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study. NeuroImage 2011, 55:1200-1207.
73. Plomp R., Levelt W. Tonal consonance and critical bandwidth. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1965, 38:548-560.
74. Price J. Comparative aspects of amygdala connectivity. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 2003, 985:50-58.
75. Roy A., Shehzad Z., Margulies D., Kelly A., Uddin L., Gotimer K., Biswal B., Castellanos F., Milham M. Functional connectivity of the human amygdala using resting state fMRI. NeuroImage 2009, 45:614-626.
76. Rudrauf D., Lachaux J., Damasio A., Baillet S., Hugueville L., Martinerie J., Damasio H., Renault B. Enter feelings: somatosensory responses following early stages of visual induction of emotion. Int. J. Psychophysiol. 2009, 72:13-23.
77. Salimpoor V., Benovoy M., Larcher K., Dagher A., Zatorre R. Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music. Nat. Neurosci. 2011, 14:257-262.
78. Scheperjans F., Eickhoff S., Hömke L., Mohlberg H., Hermann K., Amunts K., Zilles K. Probabilistic maps, morphometry, and variability of cytoarchitectonic areas in the human superior parietal cortex. Cereb. Cortex 2008, 18:2141-2157.
79. Smiley J., Hackett T., Ulbert I., Karmas G., Lakatos P., Javitt D., Schroeder C. Multisensory convergence in auditory cortex, i. cortical connections of the caudal superior temporal plane in macaque monkeys. J. Comp. Neurol. 2007, 502:894-923.
80. Stein J., Wiedholz L., Bassett D., Weinberger D., Zink C., Mattay V., Meyer-Lindenberg A. A validated network of effective amygdala connectivity. NeuroImage 2007, 36:736-745.
81. Trost W., Ethofer T., Zentner M., Vuilleumier P. Mapping aesthetic musical emotions in the brain. Cereb. Cortex 2012, 22(12):2769-2783.
82. Vassilakis P.N., Kendall R.A. Psychoacoustic and cognitive aspects of auditory roughness: definitions, models, and applications. Proceedings of Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XV 2010, 7527:1-7.
83. Vieillard S., Peretz I., Gosselin N., Khalfa S., Gagnon L., Bouchard B. Happy, sad, scary and peaceful musical excerpts for research on emotions. Cogn. Emot. 2008, 22:720-752.
84. Weiskopf N., Hutton C., Josephs O., Turner R., Deichmann R. Optimized EPI for fMRI studies of the orbitofrontal cortex: compensation of susceptibility-induced gradients in the readout direction. Magn. Reson. Mater. Phys., Biol. Med. 2007, 20:39-49.
85. Williams L., Das P., Liddell B., Kemp A., Rennie C., Gordon E. Mode of functional connectivity in amygdala pathways dissociates level of awareness for signals of fear. J. Neurosci. 2006, 26:9264-9271.
86. Yukie M. Neural connections of auditory association cortex with the posterior cingulate cortex in the monkey. Neurosci. Res. 1995, 22:179-187.