Liking for happy- and sad-sounding music: Effects of exposure

Schellenberg, E. Glenn; Peretz, Isabelle; Vieillard, Sandrine

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“…In the context of passing the time when in pain, this is modeled by the current results; participants liked sad music the least. However, Schellenberg et al (2008) suggests that individuals like to listen to sad music when they themselves are feeling stressed or upset -potentially emotions that are induced by pain. This way, individuals in a negative mood can relate their feelings expressed in the sad song through catharsis.…”

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“…Future research should therefore aim to extend this study with a clinical population and with chronic pain to assess the value of music-induced catharsis in greater depth. Schellenberg et al (2008) argued that participants prefer to listen to music that relates to their current mood. So, influencing mood at the beginning of the study might result in variability in the pain management that is promoted.…”

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“…Schellenberg, Peretz and Vieillard (2008) explain this phenomenon could be due to a desire to self-manage general anxiety or fatigue from day-to-day stressors: individuals experiencing a negative mood listen in order to relate to the music and diminish stress. However, Ladinig and Schellenberg (2012) found that participants generally liked music which made them feel happy, and disliked music which made them feel sad.…”

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Passing the time when in pain: Investigating the role of musical valence.

Finlay¹,

Anil²

2016

Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain

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The effective management of pain outside of clinical settings represents a significant challenge to health services. Music listening has been successfully used as a method of pain management, with the greatest benefits to listeners evident if the music is familiar, preferred and has emotional resonance. This study examined the role of self-selected emotion-inducing music used for pain management (pain tolerance, intensity, perceived control, distraction and anxiety reduction) during the cold pressor test. In a repeated-measures design, four cold pressor tests were used to induce short-term, acute pain, whilst 41 participants listened either to happy, sad, relaxing or no music. Findings indicated that music enhanced pain tolerance over no music, and happy and relaxing music increased pain tolerance and altered time perception to a greater extent than sad music. Happy and relaxing music facilitated distraction from pain and enhanced perceived pain control. Relaxing music additionally had anxiolytic properties and reduced pain intensity. Results suggest that music's inclusion in pain management is justified and that music with happy and relaxing components can be used to facilitate coping with pain in a non-clinical context.

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Passing the time when in pain: Investigating the role of musical valence.

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2016

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“…It can thus be suggested that preterm-infants probably acquired specific tempo processing expertise during these weeks of music exposure. Furthermore, it is known that familiar music is perceived as more pleasant (Schellenberg et al, 2008). In adults, thalamus activity correlates to chills intensity when listening to pleasurable music (Blood and Zatorre, 2001).…”

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Music processing in preterm and full-term newborns: A psychophysiological interaction (PPI) approach in neonatal fMRI

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A B S T R A C TNeonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) provide special equipment designed to give life support for the increasing number of prematurely born infants and assure their survival. More recently NICU's strive to include developmentally oriented care and modulate sensory input for preterm infants. Music, among other sensory stimuli, has been introduced into NICUs, but without knowledge on the basic music processing in the brain of preterm infants. In this study, we explored the cortico-subcortical music processing of different types of conditions (Original music, Tempo modification, Key transposition) in newborns shortly after birth to assess the effective connectivity of the primary auditory cortex with the entire newborn brain. Additionally, we investigated if early exposure during NICU stay modulates brain processing of music in preterm infants at term equivalent age. We approached these two questions using Psychophysiological Interaction (PPI) analyses. A group of preterm infants listened to music (Original music) starting from 33 weeks postconceptional age until term equivalent age and were compared to two additional groups without music intervention; preterm infants and full-term newborns. Auditory cortex functional connectivity with cerebral regions known to be implicated in tempo and familiarity processing were identified only for preterm infants with music training in the NICU. Increased connectivity between auditory cortices and thalamus and dorsal striatum may not only reflect their sensitivity to the known music and the processing of its tempo as familiar, but these results are also compatible with the hypothesis that the previously listened music induces a more arousing and pleasant state. Our results suggest that music exposure in NICU's environment can induce brain functional connectivity changes that are associated with music processing.

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“…Then participants rated the music stimuli with respect to familiarity on a four-point scale [from 1 = "Never heard it before" to 4 = "I know this song, it is by (name of composer or interpreter)"]. Because familiarity decreases the arousal potential of an emotional stimulus [21] and memory is known to affect the emotional value of music [22] , we controlled for familiarity and associated memory processes. None of our subjects was a professional musician or knew any of the experimental music stimuli.…”

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Music in depression: Neural correlates of emotional experience in remitted depression

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Koelsch³

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AIM:To investigate neural and behavioral correlates of emotional experiences as potential vulnerability markers in remitted depression. METHODS:Fourteen remitted participants with a history of major depression and fourteen closely matched healthy control participants took part in the study. We used two psychiatric interviews (Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale) and one self-report scale (Beck Depression Inventory) to assess remission. Healthy control participants were interviewed by an experienced psychiatrist to exclude those who showed any current or lifetime psychiatric or neurological disorders. To explore psychosocial and cognitive-interpersonal underpinnings of potential vulnerability markers of depression, early life stress, coping styles and alexithymia were also assessed. We induced pleasant and unpleasant emotional states using congruent combinations of music and human emotional faces to investigate neural and behavioral correlates of emotional experiences; neutral stimuli were used as a control condition. Brain responses were recorded using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Behavioral responses of pleasantness, arousal, joy and fear were measured via button-press inside the resonance imaging scanner. RESULTS:The mean age of the sample was 54.9 (± 11.3) years. There were no differences between remitted depressed (RD) (n = 14; 9 females and 5 males) and healthy participants (n = 14; 8 females and 6 males) regarding age, current degree of depression, early life stress, coping styles and alexithymia. On a neural level, RD participants showed reduced activations in the pregenual anterior cingulate cortex (pgACC) in response to pleasant [parameter estimates: -0.78 vs 0.32; t (26) CONCLUSION:The present study indicates that, in euthymic individuals, depression history alters neural correlates, but not the subjective dimension of pleasant and unpleasant emotional experiences. BRIEF ARTICLE

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Liking for happy- and sad-sounding music: Effects of exposure

Cited by 168 publications

References 63 publications

Passing the time when in pain: Investigating the role of musical valence.

Passing the time when in pain: Investigating the role of musical valence.

Music processing in preterm and full-term newborns: A psychophysiological interaction (PPI) approach in neonatal fMRI

Music in depression: Neural correlates of emotional experience in remitted depression

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