Mental health and music engagement: review, framework, and guidelines for future studies

DE Gustavson, PL Coleman, JR Iversen… - Translational …, 2021 - nature.com
Is engaging with music good for your mental health? This question has long been the topic
of empirical clinical and nonclinical investigations, with studies indicating positive …

[HTML][HTML] The hearing hippocampus

AJ Billig, M Lad, W Sedley, TD Griffiths - Progress in neurobiology, 2022 - Elsevier
The hippocampus has a well-established role in spatial and episodic memory but a broader
function has been proposed including aspects of perception and relational processing …

[HTML][HTML] The sensation of groove engages motor and reward networks

TE Matthews, MAG Witek, T Lund, P Vuust… - NeuroImage, 2020 - Elsevier
The sensation of groove has been defined as the pleasurable desire to move to music,
suggesting that both motor timing and reward processes are involved in this experience …

Neural correlates of specific musical anhedonia

N Martínez-Molina, E Mas-Herrero… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Although music is ubiquitous in human societies, there are some people for whom music
holds no reward value despite normal perceptual ability and preserved reward-related …

[HTML][HTML] It's sad but I like it: The neural dissociation between musical emotions and liking in experts and laypersons

E Brattico, B Bogert, V Alluri, M Tervaniemi… - Frontiers in Human …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Emotion-related areas of the brain, such as the medial frontal cortices, amygdala and
striatum are activated during listening to sad or happy music as well as during listening to …

The sensation of groove is affected by the interaction of rhythmic and harmonic complexity

TE Matthews, MAG Witek, OA Heggli, VB Penhune… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The pleasurable desire to move to music, also known as groove, is modulated by rhythmic
complexity. How the sensation of groove is influenced by other musical features, such as the …

Connectivity patterns during music listening: Evidence for action‐based processing in musicians

V Alluri, P Toiviainen, I Burunat, M Kliuchko… - Human Brain …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Musical expertise is visible both in the morphology and functionality of the brain. Recent
research indicates that functional integration between multi‐sensory, somato‐motor, default …

Sweet anticipation and positive emotions in music, groove, and dance

OF Vander Elst, P Vuust, ML Kringelbach - Current Opinion in Behavioral …, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Music, groove, and dance work together to evoke pleasure and positive
emotion.•Music is best understood in a predictive coding paradigm.•Groove is the …

Spatiotemporal whole-brain activity and functional connectivity of melodies recognition

L Bonetti, E Brattico, F Carlomagno, J Cabral… - Cerebral …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Music is a non-verbal human language, built on logical, hierarchical structures, that offers
excellent opportunities to explore how the brain processes complex spatiotemporal auditory …

White matter microstructure reflects individual differences in music reward sensitivity

N Martínez-Molina, E Mas-Herrero… - Journal of …, 2019 - Soc Neuroscience
People show considerable variability in the degree of pleasure they experience from music.
These individual differences in music reward sensitivity are driven by variability in functional …