Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2015 Feb;19(2):86-91. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2014.12.001. Epub 2014 Dec 19.
Music has always played a central role in human culture. The question of how musical sounds can have such profound emotional and rewarding effects has been a topic of interest throughout generations. At a fundamental level, listening to music involves tracking a series of sound events over time. Because humans are experts in pattern recognition, temporal predictions are constantly generated, creating a sense of anticipation. We summarize how complex cognitive abilities and cortical processes integrate with fundamental subcortical reward and motivation systems in the brain to give rise to musical pleasure. This work builds on previous theoretical models that emphasize the role of prediction in music appreciation by integrating these ideas with recent neuroscientific evidence.
音乐在人类文化中一直扮演着核心角色。音乐声音如何能够产生如此深远的情感和回报效果，这个问题一直是几代人的兴趣所在。从根本上讲，听音乐涉及到随着时间的推移跟踪一系列声音事件。由于人类是模式识别方面的专家，因此会不断产生时间预测，从而产生期待感。我们总结了复杂的认知能力和皮质过程如何与大脑中的基本皮质下奖励和动机系统相结合，从而产生音乐愉悦感。这项工作建立在以前的理论模型的基础上，这些模型强调了预测在音乐欣赏中的作用，通过将这些想法与最近的神经科学证据相结合。
