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Electrical Brain Responses to Descriptive versus Evaluative Judgments of Music
Author(s) -
BRATTICO ELVIRA,
JACOBSEN THOMAS,
BAENE WOUTER,
NAKAI NOA,
TERVANIEMI MARI
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1196/annals.1284.018
Subject(s) - active listening , psychology , descriptive statistics , descriptive research , musical , cognitive psychology , audiology , communication , visual arts , art , mathematics , medicine , statistics
A bstract : The present study was aimed at finding neural correlates of aesthetic versus descriptive listening of the same musical cadences. Results showed that aesthetic listening generated greater right frontocentral negativities than did descriptive listening, indicating distinct cortical mechanisms for aesthetic versus descriptive processing of music.