TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Differences between musicians and non-musicians in neuro-affective processing of sadness and fear expressed in music
JO  - Neuroscience letters
A1  - Park, Mona
A1  - Gutyrchik, Evgeny
A1  - Bao, Yan
A1  - Zaytseva, Yuliya
A1  - Carl, Petra
A1  - Welker, Lorenz
A1  - Pöppel, Ernst
A1  - Reiser, Maximilian
A1  - Blautzik, Janusch
A1  - Meindl, Thomas
SP  - 120
EP  - 124
VL  - 566
IS  - 
N2  - Music is known to convey and evoke emotional states. Musical training has been argued to lead to changes in the neural architecture, and enhanced processing of emotions. It is not clear, whether musical training is also associated with changes in behavioral and neural responses to musically conveyed emotions. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging we investigated the responses to three musically conveyed emotions (happiness, sadness, fear) in a group of musicians and a group of non-musicians. We find that musicians rate sadness and fear as significantly more arousing than non-musicians, and that musical training is associated with specific neural activations: In response to sadness expressed in music, musicians show activation increases in the right prefrontal cortex, specifically in the superior and middle frontal gyri. In response to fear, musicians show activation increases in the right parietal cortex, specifically in the supramarginal and inferior parietal gyri. No specific activations were observed in response to happiness. Our results highlight the strong association between musical training and altered processing of "negative" emotions on both the behavioral and on the neural level.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0304-3940
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2014.02.041
ID  - ref1
ER  -