title: Electrical brain responses to descriptive versus evaluative judgments of music.
abstract: The present study was aimed at finding neural correlates of aesthetic versus descriptive listening of the same musical cadences. Results showed that aesthetic listening generated greater right frontocentral negativities than did descriptive listening, indicating distinct cortical mechanisms for aesthetic versus descriptive processing of music.
authors.affiliation: Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki FIN-00014, Finland. elvira@cbru.helsinki.fi
authors.forename: Elvira
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Brattico
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jacobsen
authors.forename: Wouter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: De Baene
authors.forename: Noa
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nakai
authors.forename: Mari
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tervaniemi
mesh_terms: D001303:Auditory Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D004954:Esthetics / Q000523:psychology*; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory / Q000502:physiology*; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D009146:Music / Q000523:psychology*