Scaling behaviour in music and cortical dynamics interplay to mediate music listening pleasure
Teixeira Borges AF, Irrmischer M, Brockmeier T, Smit DJA, Mansvelder HD, Linkenkaer-Hansen K
Scientific reports · 10 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- In vitro/mechanistic study (classified by our AI screen)
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- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
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- Independent funding
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Publication
- Published
- 2019-11-27 · Sci Rep · vol. 9 · issue 1 · p. 17700
- Publisher
- Nature Portfolio
- Cited
- 28 citations · more than 81% of similar papers · 1.4× the field average
- References
- 96 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Neuroscience and Music Perception · Neural dynamics and brain function · EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Keywords
- Pleasure, Scaling, Active listening, Psychology, Music psychology, Cognitive psychology, Music therapy, Brain activity and meditation, Loudness, Neuroscience, Electroencephalography, Communication, Audiology, Medicine, Mathematics, Musicology
- MeSH
- cerebral cortex, neurons, humans, electroencephalography, auditory perception, attention, heart rate, music, adult, female, male, pleasure
6 authors
From NL, US
- Ana Filipa Teixeira Borges · correspondingAmsterdam Neuroscience; Cognitive Research (United States); Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Mona IrrmischerAmsterdam Neuroscience; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Thomas BrockmeierAmsterdam Neuroscience; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Dirk J. A. SmitAmsterdam UMC Location University of Amsterdam; Amsterdam Neuroscience; University of Amsterdam
- Huibert D. MansvelderAmsterdam Neuroscience; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Klaus Linkenkaer‐HansenAmsterdam Neuroscience; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Abstract
The pleasure of music listening regulates daily behaviour and promotes rehabilitation in healthcare. Human behaviour emerges from the modulation of spontaneous timely coordinated neuronal networks. Too little is known about the physical properties and neurophysiological underpinnings of music to understand its perception, its health benefit and to deploy personalized or standardized music-therapy. Prior studies revealed how macroscopic neuronal and music patterns scale with frequency according to a 1/fα relationship, where a is the scaling exponent. Here, we examine how this hallmark in music and neuronal dynamics relate to pleasure. Using electroencephalography, electrocardiography and behavioural data in healthy subjects, we show that music listening decreases the scaling exponent of neuronal activity and-in temporal areas-this change is linked to pleasure. Default-state scaling exponents of the most pleased individuals were higher and approached those found in music loudness fluctuations. Furthermore, the scaling in selective regions and timescales and the average heart rate were largely proportional to the scaling of the melody. The scaling behaviour of heartbeat and neuronal fluctuations were associated during music listening. Our results point to a 1/f resonance between brain and music and a temporal rescaling of neuronal activity in the temporal cortex as mechanisms underlying music appreciation.
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