The structural neural substrate of expectation and rewards of music emotion information based on music cadences

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26380994
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Experimental psychology
• Research Institution: Tokyo Denki University
• Principal Investigator: Reiko Hoshi (柴玲子) 東京電機大学, 情報環境学部, 研究員 (90291921)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 音楽終止構造 / まとまり構造 / 脳機能計測 / fMRI / 情動情報 / 運動 / 実行機能

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, using the music hierarchical structure model, we analyzed the relationship between the music structure and the reward system based on its emotional information transmission by psychophysiological measurement, and by measuring the brain function combining EEG, MEG and fMRI. As a result, when the music is recognized as a set by the termination structure, acoustic information processing is performed in the brain, at the same time, activity in the area related to emotion and movement is significantly increased. Although no increase in the activity in the area related to the compensation system was observed, it became clear that the activity in the area related to the execution function in the cerebral cortex prefrontal cortex increased and correlated.

Free Research Field

認知神経科学