Pallesen Karen Johanne, Brattico Elvira, Bailey Christopher, Korvenoja Antti, Koivisto Juha, Gjedde Albert, Carlson Synnöve
Center for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University Hospital, Nørrebrogade 44, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2005 Dec;1060:450-3. doi: 10.1196/annals.1360.047.
Musicians and nonmusicians listened to major, minor, and dissonant musical chords while their BOLD brain responses were registered with functional magnetic resonance imaging. In both groups of listeners, minor and dissonant chords, compared with major chords, elicited enhanced responses in several brain areas, including the amygdala, retrosplenial cortex, brain stem, and cerebellum, during passive listening but not during memorization of the chords. The results indicate that (1) neural processing in emotion-related brain areas is activated even by single chords, (2) emotion processing is enhanced in the absence of cognitive requirements, and (3) musicians and nonmusicians do not differ in their neural responses to single musical chords during passive listening.
音乐家和非音乐家在聆听大调、小调及不和谐和弦时,通过功能磁共振成像记录他们大脑的血氧水平依赖(BOLD)反应。在两组听众中,与大调和弦相比,小调和不和谐和弦在被动聆听而非记忆和弦时,会在包括杏仁核、压后皮质、脑干和小脑在内的多个脑区引发增强反应。结果表明:(1)即使是单个和弦也能激活与情绪相关脑区的神经处理;(2)在没有认知需求的情况下情绪处理会增强;(3)在被动聆听时,音乐家和非音乐家对单个音乐和弦的神经反应没有差异。