The Difference between Aesthetic Appreciation of Artistic and Popular Music: Evidence from an fMRI Study.

To test the hypothesis that pleasure from artistic music is intellectual while that from popular music is physiological, this study investigated the different functional mechanisms between aesthetic appreciation of artistic and popular music using fMRI. 18 male non-musicians were scanned while they...

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Main Authors: Ping Huang, Hanhua Huang, Qiuling Luo, Lei Mo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5096663?pdf=render