Spectral Characteristics of EEG during Active Emotional Musical Performance

The research on neural correlates of intentional emotion communication by the music performer is still limited. In this study, we attempted to evaluate EEG patterns recorded from musicians who were instructed to perform a simple piano score while manipulating their manner of play to express specific...

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Autores principales: Pousson, Jachin Edward, Voicikas, Aleksandras, Bernhofs, Valdis, Pipinis, Evaldas, Burmistrova, Lana, Lin, Yuan-Pin, Griškova-Bulanova, Inga
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8620396/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34833541
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21227466
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author Pousson, Jachin Edward
Voicikas, Aleksandras
Bernhofs, Valdis
Pipinis, Evaldas
Burmistrova, Lana
Lin, Yuan-Pin
Griškova-Bulanova, Inga
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Voicikas, Aleksandras
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description The research on neural correlates of intentional emotion communication by the music performer is still limited. In this study, we attempted to evaluate EEG patterns recorded from musicians who were instructed to perform a simple piano score while manipulating their manner of play to express specific contrasting emotions and self-rate the emotion they reflected on the scales of arousal and valence. In the emotional playing task, participants were instructed to improvise variations in a manner by which the targeted emotion is communicated. In contrast, in the neutral playing task, participants were asked to play the same piece precisely as written to obtain data for control over general patterns of motor and sensory activation during playing. The spectral analysis of the signal was applied as an initial step to be able to connect findings to the wider field of music-emotion research. The experimental contrast of emotional playing vs. neutral playing was employed to probe brain activity patterns differentially involved in distinct emotional states. The tasks of emotional and neutral playing differed considerably with respect to the state of intended-to-transfer emotion arousal and valence levels. The EEG activity differences were observed between distressed/excited and neutral/depressed/relaxed playing.
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spelling pubmed-86203962021-11-27 Spectral Characteristics of EEG during Active Emotional Musical Performance Pousson, Jachin Edward Voicikas, Aleksandras Bernhofs, Valdis Pipinis, Evaldas Burmistrova, Lana Lin, Yuan-Pin Griškova-Bulanova, Inga Sensors (Basel) Article The research on neural correlates of intentional emotion communication by the music performer is still limited. In this study, we attempted to evaluate EEG patterns recorded from musicians who were instructed to perform a simple piano score while manipulating their manner of play to express specific contrasting emotions and self-rate the emotion they reflected on the scales of arousal and valence. In the emotional playing task, participants were instructed to improvise variations in a manner by which the targeted emotion is communicated. In contrast, in the neutral playing task, participants were asked to play the same piece precisely as written to obtain data for control over general patterns of motor and sensory activation during playing. The spectral analysis of the signal was applied as an initial step to be able to connect findings to the wider field of music-emotion research. The experimental contrast of emotional playing vs. neutral playing was employed to probe brain activity patterns differentially involved in distinct emotional states. The tasks of emotional and neutral playing differed considerably with respect to the state of intended-to-transfer emotion arousal and valence levels. The EEG activity differences were observed between distressed/excited and neutral/depressed/relaxed playing. MDPI 2021-11-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8620396/ /pubmed/34833541 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21227466 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8620396/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21227466
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