Journal
TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES
Volume 14, Issue 3, Pages 131-137Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2010.01.002
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- German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) [KO 2266/2-1]
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Music is capable of evoking exceptionally strong emotions and of reliably affecting the mood of individuals. Functional neuroimaging and lesion studies show that music-evoked emotions can modulate activity in virtually all limbic and paralimbic brain structures. These structures are crucially involved in the initiation, generation, detection, maintenance, regulation and termination of emotions that have survival value for the individual and the species. Therefore, at least some music-evoked emotions involve the very core of evolutionarily adaptive neuroaffective mechanisms. Because dysfunctions in these structures are related to emotional disorders, a better understanding of music-evoked emotions and their neural correlates can lead to a more systematic and effective use of music in therapy.
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