The Effects of Timbre on Neural Responses to Musical Emotion

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Music Perception Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI:10.1525/mp.2019.37.2.134

Weixia Zhang, Fang Liu, Linshu Zhou, Wan-Chen Wang, Hanyuan Jiang, Cunmei Jiang

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Abstract

Timbre is an important factor that affects the perception of emotion in music. To date, little is known about the effects of timbre on neural responses to musical emotion. To address this issue, we used ERPs to investigate whether there are different neural responses to musical emotion when the same melodies are presented in different timbres. With a cross-modal affective priming paradigm, target faces were primed by affectively congruent or incongruent melodies without lyrics presented in the violin, flute, and voice. Results showed a larger P3 and a larger left anterior distributed LPC in response to affectively incongruent versus congruent trials in the voice version. For the flute version, however, only the LPC effect was found, which was distributed over centro-parietal electrodes. Unlike the voice and flute versions, an N400 effect was observed in the violin version. These findings revealed different patterns of neural responses to musical emotion when the same melodies were presented in different timbres, and provide evidence for the hypothesis that there are specialized neural responses to the human voice.

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音色对音乐情绪神经反应的影响

音色是影响音乐情感感知的一个重要因素。到目前为止，人们对音色对音乐情绪的神经反应的影响知之甚少。为了解决这个问题，我们使用ERP来研究当相同的旋律以不同的音色呈现时，是否对音乐情绪有不同的神经反应。在跨模态情感启动范式中，目标面孔被情感一致或不一致的旋律所启动，而没有小提琴、长笛和人声中的歌词。结果显示，在语音版本中，较大的P3和较大的左前分布LPC响应于情感不一致与一致的试验。然而，对于长笛版本，只有LPC效应被发现，它分布在中央-顶叶电极上。与人声和长笛版本不同，小提琴版本中观察到了N400的效果。这些发现揭示了当相同的旋律以不同的音色呈现时，神经对音乐情绪的不同反应模式，并为人类声音存在专门的神经反应的假设提供了证据。

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Music Perception Multiple-

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3.70

自引率

4.30%

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期刊介绍： Music Perception charts the ongoing scholarly discussion and study of musical phenomena. Publishing original empirical and theoretical papers, methodological articles and critical reviews from renowned scientists and musicians, Music Perception is a repository of insightful research. The broad range of disciplines covered in the journal includes: •Psychology •Psychophysics •Linguistics •Neurology •Neurophysiology •Artificial intelligence •Computer technology •Physical and architectural acoustics •Music theory