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Brain responses to two types of moved experiences

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17K18424
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Cognitive science
Experimental psychology
Research InstitutionNational Institute of Information and Communications Technology

Principal Investigator

Kazuma Mori  国立研究開発法人情報通信研究機構, 脳情報通信融合研究センター脳情報工学研究室, 研究員 (70754696)

Project Period (FY) 2017-04-01 – 2020-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Keywords情動 / 感動 / 芸術 / 音楽 / 脳 / fMRI / 音楽情報処理 / 機械学習 / 深層学習 / 脳認知科学 / 生理
Outline of Final Research Achievements

When people are being emotionally moved by a work of art, a specific activity is thought to occur in the brain. The present study aims to elucidate the brain activity for two types of emotional response, goosebumps and tears. Further, the aim of this study was also to analyze the musical features associated with the goosebumps and tears. The results showed that goosebumps and tears were associated with activity in the caudate nucleus and the nucleus accumbens, which are brain regions involved in reward, respectively. It was shown that from the time-frequency information of the music used in the experiment, the period of music when goosebumps and tears occur was predicted by machine learning. Although the previous studies have shown that brain activity related to the sensation of goosebumps, the present study showed that brain activity related to the sensation of goosebumps. In addition, the two type of being moved experience can be discriminated from the acoustic information.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

脳機能計測装置の内部で音楽を聴取させる実験によって、感動が生じた時の脳活動を示した。音楽によって鳥肌を伴う感動と、涙を伴う感動が生じた時間帯の脳活動を調べた結果、尾状核や側坐核と呼ばれる脳領域がそれぞれ活動すると示された。これらの領域は、食事などの報酬を得たときに活動する脳部位であるため、鳥肌や涙の感動は異なるタイプの脳への報酬であるという新たな学術的知見が得られた。また、実験に用いた音楽の情報解析から、鳥肌や涙を喚起しやすい特徴を持った音楽の時間帯を特定できることが示された。こうした技術の開発は、感動しやすい音楽の選出や製作に貢献するものと考えられ社会的意義が大きい。

Report

(4 results)
  • 2019 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (8 results)

All 2019 2018 2017

All Presentation (7 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results) Book (1 results)

  • [Presentation] 今改めて考える感情とは何か2019

    • Author(s)
      森数馬
    • Organizer
      日本感情心理学会第24回大会
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 音楽の科学と応用2019

    • Author(s)
      森数馬
    • Organizer
      第63回システム制御情報学会
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 深層学習を用いた音楽特徴量に基づく感動反応の予測2019

    • Author(s)
      森数馬
    • Organizer
      日本心理学会第83回大会
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] なぜ人は音楽を聴くのか?:音楽聴取の心理的機能を探る2019

    • Author(s)
      森数馬
    • Organizer
      日本心理学会第83回大会
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] “Being moved” as a phasic physiological relaxation during physiological arousal2019

    • Author(s)
      Mori, K., & Iwanaga, M.
    • Organizer
      SANS 2019
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 機械学習による音楽のもたらす感情の予測2019

    • Author(s)
      森 数馬
    • Organizer
      第63回システム制御情報学会研究発表講演会
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Support vector machine decodes the two types of peak emotional responses to music2017

    • Author(s)
      Mori, K., & Iwanaga, M.
    • Organizer
      The 6th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] 基礎心理学実験法ハンドブック2018

    • Author(s)
      日本基礎心理学会監修/坂上貴之・河原純一郎・木村英司・三浦佳世・行場次朗・石金浩史責任編集(一部執筆 森数馬)
    • Total Pages
      608
    • Publisher
      朝倉書店
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report

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Published: 2017-04-28   Modified: 2021-02-19  

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