A systematic review on the neural effects of music on emotion regulation: implications for music therapy practice
Moore KS
Journal of music therapy · 89 citations
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How it was studied
- Design
- Systematic review (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Mechanisms only
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Funding not disclosed
Publication
- Published
- 2013-09-01 · J Music Ther · vol. 50 · issue 3 · pp. 198–242
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Cited
- 247 citations · more than 96% of similar papers · 5.0× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 76 works
- Access
- Paywalled
- Research areas
- Neuroscience and Music Perception · Music Therapy and Health · Emotion and Mood Recognition
- Keywords
- Psychology, Music therapy, Music and emotion, Improvisation, Singing, Active listening, Perception, Cognitive psychology, Music perception, Cognitive dissonance, Arousal, Musical, Cognition, Music psychology, Timbre, Inclusion (mineral), Cognitive science, Psychotherapist, Social psychology, Musicology, Music education, Music history, Neuroscience
- MeSH
- neural pathways, humans, acoustic stimulation, music therapy, brain mapping, emotions, affect, cognition, auditory perception, arousal, neurosciences, models, neurological, music
1 author
From US
- Kimberly Sena Moore · correspondingUniversity of Missouri–Kansas City
Abstract
Background
Emotion regulation (ER) is an internal process through which a person maintains a comfortable state of arousal by modulating one or more aspects of emotion. The neural correlates underlying ER suggest an interplay between cognitive control areas and areas involved in emotional reactivity. Although some studies have suggested that music may be a useful tool in ER, few studies have examined the links between music perception/production and the neural mechanisms that underlie ER and resulting implications for clinical music therapy treatment. Objectives of this systematic review were to explore and synthesize what is known about how music and music experiences impact neural structures implicated in ER, and to consider clinical implications of these findings for structuring music stimuli to facilitate ER.
Methods
A comprehensive electronic database search resulted in 50 studies that met predetermined inclusion and exclusion criteria. Pertinent data related to the objective were extracted and study outcomes were analyzed and compared for trends and common findings.
Results
Results indicated there are certain music characteristics and experiences that produce desired and undesired neural activation patterns implicated in ER. Desired activation patterns occurred when listening to preferred and familiar music, when singing, and (in musicians) when improvising; undesired activation patterns arose when introducing complexity, dissonance, and unexpected musical events. Furthermore, the connection between music-influenced changes in attention and its link to ER was explored.
Conclusions
Implications for music therapy practice are discussed and preliminary guidelines for how to use music to facilitate ER are shared.
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