'Defrosting'music chills with naltrexone: the role of endogenous opioids for the intensity of musical pleasure

B Laeng, L Garvija, G Løseth, M Eikemo, G Ernst… - Consciousness and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The endogenous opioid system has been implicated during experiences of pleasure (ie,
from food or sex). Music can elicit intense emotional and bodily sensations of pleasure …

Instructed timing and body posture in guitar and bass playing in groove performance

MR Haugen, GS Câmara, K Nymoen… - Musicae …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Body movements play a crucial role in music performance and perception, and they do so
well beyond those devoted to sound production itself. Various movements related to the …

Mental Effort and Expressive Interaction in Expert and Student String Quartet Performance

L Bishop, S Høffding, O Lartillot, B Laeng - Music & Science, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Resilience to changes in performance environments is a hallmark of expertise in music
performance. Research has shown that skilled non-expert ensemble musicians maintain …

Musical and bodily predictors of mental effort in string quartet music: An ecological pupillometry study of performers and listeners

L Bishop, AR Jensenius, B Laeng - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Music performance can be cognitively and physically demanding. These demands vary
across the course of a performance as the content of the music changes. More demanding …

'Musical effort'and 'musical pleasantness': a pilot study on the neurophysiological correlates of classical music listening in adults normal hearing and unilateral …

BMS Inguscio, P Mancini, A Greco… - Hearing, Balance and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Objective This pilot case-control study is aimed to estimate 'musical effort'and 'musical
pleasantness' in adults normal hearing (NH) and Unilateral Cochlear Implant (UCI) users via …

Sound-producing actions in guitar performance of groove-based microrhythm

GS Câmara, G Sioros, K Nymoen, MR Haugen… - Empirical Musicology …, 2023 - duo.uio.no
This paper reports on an experiment that investigated how guitarists signal the intended
timing of a rhythmic event in a groove-based context via three different features related to …

Sensorimotor synchronization increases groove

C Spiech, M Hope, GS Câmara, G Sioros, T Endestad… - 2022 - osf.io
Abstract 'Groove'can be understood as the (pleasurable) urge to move to music. Predictive
accounts of music listening posit that groove reflects an embodied suppression of prediction …

Evoked and entrained pupillary activity while moving to preferred tempo and beyond

C Spiech, M Hope, V Bégel - iScience, 2025 - cell.com
People synchronize their movements more easily to rhythms with tempi closer to their
preferred motor rates than with faster or slower ones. More efficient coupling at one's …

Methodological Aspects of Pupillometry

B Laeng, S Mathôt - Modern Pupillometry: Cognition, Neuroscience, and …, 2024 - Springer
In this chapter, we focus on methodological aspects of pupillometry. We first survey existing
types of equipment that allow the measurement of pupil size. We then discuss how a …

[PDF][PDF] Perspectives of the brain mechanism for playing the piano in the light of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)

A Yoshioka, H Bando… - Int J Complement Alt …, 2022 - repo.lib.tokushima-u.ac.jp
Abstract Integrative Medicine (IM) and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
have been gradually prevalent. Authors are involved in IM, CAM, music therapy and …