Journal article
Passive music listening spontaneously engages limbic and paralimbic systems
Abstract
In this PET study, non-musicians passively listened to unfamiliar instrumental music revealed afterward to elicit strongly pleasant feelings. Activations were observed in the subcallosal cingulate gyrus, prefrontal anterior cingulate, retrosplenial cortex, hippocampus, anterior insula, and nucleus accumbens. This is the first observation of spontaneous responses in such limbic and paralimbic areas during passive listening to unfamiliar although …
Authors
Brown S; Martinez MJ; Parsons LM
Journal
Neuroreport, Vol. 15, No. 13, pp. 2033–2037
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer
Publication Date
September 2004
DOI
10.1097/00001756-200409150-00008
ISSN
0959-4965