The Difference between Aesthetic Appreciation of Artistic and Popular Music: Evidence from an fMRI Study

To test the hypothesis that pleasure from artistic music is intellectual while that from popular music is physiological, this study investigated the different functional mechanisms between aesthetic appreciation of artistic and popular music using fMRI. 18 male non-musicians were scanned while they...

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Main Authors: Huang, Ping, Huang, Hanhua, Luo, Qiuling, Mo, Lei
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5096663/