Frontiers in Psychology (Jun 2011)
Towards a neural basis of music perception -- A review and updated model
Abstract
Music perception involves acoustic analysis, auditory memory, auditoryscene analysis, processing of interval relations, of musical syntax and semantics,and activation of (pre)motor representations of actions. Moreover, music percep-tion potentially elicits emotions, thus giving rise to the modulation of emotionaleffector systems such as the subjective feeling system, the autonomic nervoussystem, the hormonal, and the immune system. Building on a previous article(Koelsch & Siebel, 2005), this review presents an updated model of music percep-tion and its neural correlates. The article describes processes involved in musicperception, and reports EEG and fMRI studies that inform about the time courseof these processes, as well as about where in the brain these processes might belocated.
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