title: The effect of musical experience on emotional self-reports and psychophysiological responses to dissonance.
abstract: To study the influence of musical education on emotional reactions to dissonance, we examined self-reports and physiological responses to dissonant and consonant musical excerpts in listeners with low (LE: n=15) and high (HE: n=13) musical experience. The results show that dissonance induces more unpleasant feelings and stronger physiological responses in HE than in LE participants, suggesting that musical education reinforces aversion to dissonance. Skin conductance (SCR) and electromyographic (EMG) signals were analyzed according to a defense cascade model, which takes into account two successive time windows corresponding to orienting and defense responses. These analyses suggest that musical experience can influence the defense response to dissonance and demonstrate a powerful role of musical experience not only in autonomic but also in expressive responses to music.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Neurosciences Fonctionnelles et Pathologies, CNRS-UMR 8160, University of Lille-Nord de France, Lille, France.
authors.forename: Delphine
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dellacherie
authors.forename: Mathieu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Roy
authors.forename: Laurent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hugueville
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Peretz
authors.forename: Séverine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Samson
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect / Q000502:physiology; D001143:Arousal / Q000502:physiology; D001341:Autonomic Nervous System / Q000502:physiology; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D004576:Electromyography; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005712:Galvanic Skin Response / Q000502:physiology; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009146:Music / Q000523:psychology*; D009622:Noise; D012044:Regression Analysis; D055815:Young Adult