Tonality

Dissonant chords and unpleasant pictures tickle the same brain area

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Title of paper under discussion Emotional responses to pleasant and unpleasant music correlate with activity in paralimbic brain regions Authors Anne J. Blood, Robert J. Zatorre, Patrick Bermudez and Alan C. Evans Journal Nature Neuroscience, volume 2 no 4, April 1999, pp382-387 Link to paper (free access) Overview Anne Blood and her colleagues at McGill …

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The brain has a tonality map – and it’s dynamic, not static

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Title of paper under discussion The Cortical Topography of Tonal Structures Underlying Western Music Authors Petr Janata, Jeffrey L. Birk, John D. Van Horn, Marc Leman, Barbara Tillmann, Jamshed J. Bharucha Journal Science, vol 298, pp 2167-2170 (2002) Link to paper (free access) Overview Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) Janata and his colleagues identified …

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