Dissonance encoding in human inferior colliculus covaries with individual differences in dislike of dissonant music

Abstract Harmony is one of the most fundamental elements of music that evokes emotional response. The inferior colliculus (IC) has been known to detect poor agreement of harmonics of sound, that is, dissonance. Electrophysiological evidence has implicated a relationship between a sustained auditory...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Seung-Goo Kim, Jöran Lepsien, Thomas Hans Fritz, Toralf Mildner, Karsten Mueller
Formato: article
Lenguaje:EN
Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2017
Materias:
R
Q
Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/709268954f4e4714ad5d6b92b2ffa45d
Etiquetas: Agregar Etiqueta
Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!
id oai:doaj.org-article:709268954f4e4714ad5d6b92b2ffa45d
record_format dspace
spelling oai:doaj.org-article:709268954f4e4714ad5d6b92b2ffa45d2021-12-02T12:32:15ZDissonance encoding in human inferior colliculus covaries with individual differences in dislike of dissonant music10.1038/s41598-017-06105-22045-2322https://doaj.org/article/709268954f4e4714ad5d6b92b2ffa45d2017-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-06105-2https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Harmony is one of the most fundamental elements of music that evokes emotional response. The inferior colliculus (IC) has been known to detect poor agreement of harmonics of sound, that is, dissonance. Electrophysiological evidence has implicated a relationship between a sustained auditory response mainly from the brainstem and unpleasant emotion induced by dissonant harmony. Interestingly, an individual’s dislike of dissonant harmony of an individual correlated with a reduced sustained auditory response. In the current paper, we report novel evidence based on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for such a relationship between individual variability in dislike of dissonance and the IC activation. Furthermore, for the first time, we show how dissonant harmony modulates functional connectivity of the IC and its association with behaviourally reported unpleasantness. The current findings support important contributions of low level auditory processing and corticofugal interaction in musical harmony preference.Seung-Goo KimJöran LepsienThomas Hans FritzToralf MildnerKarsten MuellerNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2017)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic Medicine
R
Science
Q
spellingShingle Medicine
R
Science
Q
Seung-Goo Kim
Jöran Lepsien
Thomas Hans Fritz
Toralf Mildner
Karsten Mueller
Dissonance encoding in human inferior colliculus covaries with individual differences in dislike of dissonant music
description Abstract Harmony is one of the most fundamental elements of music that evokes emotional response. The inferior colliculus (IC) has been known to detect poor agreement of harmonics of sound, that is, dissonance. Electrophysiological evidence has implicated a relationship between a sustained auditory response mainly from the brainstem and unpleasant emotion induced by dissonant harmony. Interestingly, an individual’s dislike of dissonant harmony of an individual correlated with a reduced sustained auditory response. In the current paper, we report novel evidence based on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for such a relationship between individual variability in dislike of dissonance and the IC activation. Furthermore, for the first time, we show how dissonant harmony modulates functional connectivity of the IC and its association with behaviourally reported unpleasantness. The current findings support important contributions of low level auditory processing and corticofugal interaction in musical harmony preference.
format article
author Seung-Goo Kim
Jöran Lepsien
Thomas Hans Fritz
Toralf Mildner
Karsten Mueller
author_facet Seung-Goo Kim
Jöran Lepsien
Thomas Hans Fritz
Toralf Mildner
Karsten Mueller
author_sort Seung-Goo Kim
title Dissonance encoding in human inferior colliculus covaries with individual differences in dislike of dissonant music
title_short Dissonance encoding in human inferior colliculus covaries with individual differences in dislike of dissonant music
title_full Dissonance encoding in human inferior colliculus covaries with individual differences in dislike of dissonant music
title_fullStr Dissonance encoding in human inferior colliculus covaries with individual differences in dislike of dissonant music
title_full_unstemmed Dissonance encoding in human inferior colliculus covaries with individual differences in dislike of dissonant music
title_sort dissonance encoding in human inferior colliculus covaries with individual differences in dislike of dissonant music
publisher Nature Portfolio
publishDate 2017
url https://doaj.org/article/709268954f4e4714ad5d6b92b2ffa45d
work_keys_str_mv AT seunggookim dissonanceencodinginhumaninferiorcolliculuscovarieswithindividualdifferencesindislikeofdissonantmusic
AT joranlepsien dissonanceencodinginhumaninferiorcolliculuscovarieswithindividualdifferencesindislikeofdissonantmusic
AT thomashansfritz dissonanceencodinginhumaninferiorcolliculuscovarieswithindividualdifferencesindislikeofdissonantmusic
AT toralfmildner dissonanceencodinginhumaninferiorcolliculuscovarieswithindividualdifferencesindislikeofdissonantmusic
AT karstenmueller dissonanceencodinginhumaninferiorcolliculuscovarieswithindividualdifferencesindislikeofdissonantmusic
_version_ 1718394100253720576