It’s sad but I like it: The neural dissociation between musical emotions and liking in experts and laypersons

Emotion-related areas of the brain, such as the medial frontal cortices, amygdala and striatum are activated during listening to sad or happy music as well as during listening to pleasurable music. Indeed, in music, like in other arts, sad and happy emotions might co-exist and be distinct from emoti...

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Main Authors: Elvira eBrattico, Brigitte eBogert, Vinoo eAlluri, Mari eTervaniemi, Tuomas eEerola, Thomas eJacobsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00676/full