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  • Psychology of Music
  • Affective Science

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  • Music's ability to evoke emotions has long been debated, with theories focusing on expectancy violations or imitation of social cues.
  • Previous research explored how music stimulates affective experiences, but the direct neural mechanisms remain unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel framework for understanding how music communicates affect directly through neural dynamics.
  • To investigate the role of neurodynamic synchrony in generating musical qualia and modulating core affect.

Main Methods:

  • Review of theoretical and empirical literature on consciousness, neural dynamics, and affective experience.
  • Theoretical proposal integrating concepts of dynamic neural events, neuronal synchrony, and affective modulation by music.

Main Results:

  • Conscious processes, including affect, arise from dynamic neural events in spatially dispersed brain areas, integrated via neuronal synchrony.
  • Neurodynamic synchrony with musical stimuli generates expectancies and directly modulates core affect through coupling with brain's core neurodynamics.

Conclusions:

  • Music communicates affect through a unique neural language, leveraging synchronized neural oscillations.
  • Understanding music-affect dynamics offers insights into neural mechanisms of arousal, valence, and emotional experience.