Music therapy for stress reduction: a systematic review and meta-analysis

M De Witte, AS Pinho, GJ Stams, X Moonen… - Health psychology …, 2022‏ - Taylor & Francis
Music therapy is increasingly being used as an intervention for stress reduction in both
medical and mental healthcare settings. Music therapy is characterized by personally …

Effects of music interventions on stress-related outcomes: a systematic review and two meta-analyses

M De Witte, A Spruit, S Van Hooren… - Health psychology …, 2020‏ - Taylor & Francis
Music interventions are used for stress reduction in a variety of settings because of the
positive effects of music listening on both physiological arousal (eg, heart rate, blood …

Music as a coevolved system for social bonding

PE Savage, P Loui, B Tarr, A Schachner… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2021‏ - cambridge.org
Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly
on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts such as mate selection, parental care …

What are aesthetic emotions?

W Menninghaus, V Wagner, E Wassiliwizky… - Psychological …, 2019‏ - psycnet.apa.org
This is the first comprehensive theoretical article on aesthetic emotions. Following Kant's
definition, we propose that it is the first and foremost characteristic of aesthetic emotions to …

Dopamine modulates the reward experiences elicited by music

L Ferreri, E Mas-Herrero, RJ Zatorre, P Ripollés… - Proceedings of the …, 2019‏ - pnas.org
Understanding how the brain translates a structured sequence of sounds, such as music,
into a pleasant and rewarding experience is a fascinating question which may be crucial to …

[HTML][HTML] A neural population selective for song in human auditory cortex

SV Norman-Haignere, J Feather, D Boebinger… - Current Biology, 2022‏ - cell.com
How is music represented in the brain? While neuroimaging has revealed some spatial
segregation between responses to music versus other sounds, little is known about the …

Brain correlates of music-evoked emotions

S Koelsch - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2014‏ - nature.com
Music is a universal feature of human societies, partly owing to its power to evoke strong
emotions and influence moods. During the past decade, the investigation of the neural …

Uncertainty and surprise jointly predict musical pleasure and amygdala, hippocampus, and auditory cortex activity

VKM Cheung, PMC Harrison, L Meyer, MT Pearce… - Current Biology, 2019‏ - cell.com
Listening to music often evokes intense emotions [1, 2]. Recent research suggests that
musical pleasure comes from positive reward prediction errors, which arise when what is …

The distancing-embracing model of the enjoyment of negative emotions in art reception

W Menninghaus, V Wagner, J Hanich… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2017‏ - cambridge.org
Why are negative emotions so central in art reception far beyond tragedy? Revisiting
classical aesthetics in the light of recent psychological research, we present a novel model …

Neuroaesthetics: The cognitive neuroscience of aesthetic experience

MT Pearce, DW Zaidel, O Vartanian… - Perspectives on …, 2016‏ - journals.sagepub.com
The field of neuroaesthetics has gained in popularity in recent years but also attracted
criticism from the perspectives both of the humanities and the sciences. In an effort to …