Electrical brain responses to descriptive versus evaluative judgments of music.
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.
Brattico
Elvira
E
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki FIN-00014, Finland. elvira@cbru.helsinki.fi
Jacobsen
Thomas
T
De Baene
Wouter
W
Nakai
Noa
N
Tervaniemi
Mari
M
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*