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Brain Imaging Investigation of the Neural Correlates of Emotion Regulation
Published on: August 26, 2011
Neural correlates of emotional responses to music: an EEG study
Ian Daly1, Asad Malik1, Faustina Hwang1
1Brain Embodiment Lab, School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AY, UK.
Abstract:
This paper presents an EEG study into the neural correlates of music-induced emotions. We presented participants with a large dataset containing musical pieces in different styles, and asked them to report on their induced emotional responses. We found neural correlates of music-induced emotion in a number of frequencies over the pre-frontal cortex. Additionally, we found a set of patterns of functional connectivity, defined by inter-channel coherence measures, to be significantly different between groups of music-induced emotional responses.
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