- Titel
- A functional MRI study of happy and sad emotions in music with and without lyrics
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-801772
- Quellenangabe
- Frontiers in Psychology
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Jahrgang: 2
Artikelnummer: 308 - Erstveröffentlichung
- 2011
- Abstract (EN)
- Musical emotions,such as happiness and sadness,have been investigated using instrumental music devoid of linguistic content. However, pop and rock, the most common musical genres, utilize lyrics for conveying emotions. Using participants’ self-selected musical excerpts, we studied their behavior and brain responses to elucidate how lyrics interact with musical emotion processing, as reflected by emotion recognition and activation of limbic areas involved in affective experience. We extracted samples from subjects’ selections of sad and happy pieces and sorted them according to the presence of lyrics. Acoustic feature analysis showed that music with lyrics differed from music without lyrics in spectral centroid, a feature related toperceptual brightness,whereassadmusicwithlyricsdidnotdivergefromhappymusicwithoutlyrics,indicatingtheroleofotherfactorsinemotionclassification.Behavioralratingsrevealedthathappymusicwithoutlyricsinducedstrongerpositiveemotionsthanhappymusicwithlyrics.Wealsoacquiredfunctionalmagneticres-onanceimagingdatawhilesubjectsperformedaffectivetasksregardingthemusic.First,usingecologicalandacousticallyvariablestimuli,webroadenedpreviousfindingsaboutthebrainprocessingofmusicalemotionsandofsongsversusinstrumentalmusic.Addition-ally,contrastsbetweensadmusicwithversuswithoutlyricsrecruitedtheparahippocampalgyrus,theamygdala,theclaustrum,theputamen,theprecentralgyrus,themedialandinfe-riorfrontalgyri(includingBroca’sarea),andtheauditorycortex,whilethereversecontrastproducednoactivations.Happymusicwithoutlyricsactivatedstructuresofthelimbicsys-temandtherightparsopercularisoftheinferiorfrontalgyrus,whereasauditoryregionsalonerespondedtohappymusicwithlyrics.Thesefindingspointtotheroleofacousticcuesfortheexperienceofhappinessinmusicandtotheimportanceoflyricsforsadmusicalemotions.
- Andere Ausgabe
- Link zur Erstveröffentlichung
Link: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00308 - Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- music,emotion,fMRI,limbic system,language,acoustic feature
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 150
- Verlag
- Frontiers Media, Lausanne
- Version / Begutachtungsstatus
- publizierte Version / Verlagsversion
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-801772
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 27.07.2022
- Dokumenttyp
- Artikel
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch
- Lizenz / Rechtehinweis
CC BY 4.0