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Neural Correlates of Music Listening: Does the Music Matter?
The last decades have seen a proliferation of music and brain studies, with a major focus on plastic changes as the outcome of continuous and prolonged engagement with music. Thanks to the advent of neuroaesthetics, research on music cognition has broadened its scope by considering the multifarious...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8699514/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34942855 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11121553 |
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author | Reybrouck, Mark Vuust, Peter Brattico, Elvira |
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description | The last decades have seen a proliferation of music and brain studies, with a major focus on plastic changes as the outcome of continuous and prolonged engagement with music. Thanks to the advent of neuroaesthetics, research on music cognition has broadened its scope by considering the multifarious phenomenon of listening in all its forms, including incidental listening up to the skillful attentive listening of experts, and all its possible effects. These latter range from objective and sensorial effects directly linked to the acoustic features of the music to the subjectively affective and even transformational effects for the listener. Of special importance is the finding that neural activity in the reward circuit of the brain is a key component of a conscious listening experience. We propose that the connection between music and the reward system makes music listening a gate towards not only hedonia but also eudaimonia, namely a life well lived, full of meaning that aims at realizing one’s own “daimon” or true nature. It is argued, further, that music listening, even when conceptualized in this aesthetic and eudaimonic framework, remains a learnable skill that changes the way brain structures respond to sounds and how they interact with each other. |
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spelling | pubmed-86995142021-12-24 Neural Correlates of Music Listening: Does the Music Matter? Reybrouck, Mark Vuust, Peter Brattico, Elvira Brain Sci Review The last decades have seen a proliferation of music and brain studies, with a major focus on plastic changes as the outcome of continuous and prolonged engagement with music. Thanks to the advent of neuroaesthetics, research on music cognition has broadened its scope by considering the multifarious phenomenon of listening in all its forms, including incidental listening up to the skillful attentive listening of experts, and all its possible effects. These latter range from objective and sensorial effects directly linked to the acoustic features of the music to the subjectively affective and even transformational effects for the listener. Of special importance is the finding that neural activity in the reward circuit of the brain is a key component of a conscious listening experience. We propose that the connection between music and the reward system makes music listening a gate towards not only hedonia but also eudaimonia, namely a life well lived, full of meaning that aims at realizing one’s own “daimon” or true nature. It is argued, further, that music listening, even when conceptualized in this aesthetic and eudaimonic framework, remains a learnable skill that changes the way brain structures respond to sounds and how they interact with each other. MDPI 2021-11-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8699514/ /pubmed/34942855 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11121553 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/). |
spellingShingle | Review Reybrouck, Mark Vuust, Peter Brattico, Elvira Neural Correlates of Music Listening: Does the Music Matter? |
title | Neural Correlates of Music Listening: Does the Music Matter? |
title_full | Neural Correlates of Music Listening: Does the Music Matter? |
title_fullStr | Neural Correlates of Music Listening: Does the Music Matter? |
title_full_unstemmed | Neural Correlates of Music Listening: Does the Music Matter? |
title_short | Neural Correlates of Music Listening: Does the Music Matter? |
title_sort | neural correlates of music listening: does the music matter? |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8699514/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34942855 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11121553 |
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