Summary Of Koelsch's Response To Music

In Intensely pleasurable responses to music correlate with activity in brain regions implicated in reward and emotion, Blood and Zatorre used positron emission tomography to study the neural mechanisms. Results involved changes in heart rate, electromyogram, and respiration. Increase and decrease were detected in the brain regions involving in reward, motivation, emotion, and arousal. Similarly Alluri and colleagues in From Vivaldi to Beatles and back, predicts the brain activity in music listening conditions using neuroimaging. Participants were scanned using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging while listening to two musical works. Pieces from various genres with and without lyrics. Results revealed that activations in several areas in the brain could be predicted. Different technical equipments were used for the experiments. Would be interesting to find out whether the results and conclusion of the studies and experiments correlate each other. …show more content…
Koelsch provides a good starting point for a methodical, rational, and understandable theory on music‐evoked emotions that observes both reception and production of music. In a different article Brain correlates of music-evoked emotions Koelsch defines that ‘music is a universal feature of human societies’, due to its power to stir up powerful emotions and have an impact on moods. The articles of Koelsch are published in different years, under the same topic. The question is whether he came to a same conclusion, if not what were the changes and