Frontal brain electrical activity (EEG) distinguishes valence and intensity of musical emotions

By Louis A. Schmidt, Laurel J. Trainor. 2001

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The Cognitive and Academic Benefits of Music to Children: Facts and fiction (2006, background): “…findings that different types of music affect mood and arousal differently (e.g., Gabrielsson & Lindstrom, 2001; Krumhansl, 1997; Peretz, 2001; Schmidt & Trainor, 2001; Sloboda & Juslin, 2001; Thayer & Levenson, 1983; Westerman, Spies, Stahl, & Hesse, 1996), and that background music can…”
Feature Extraction and Selection for Emotion Recognition from EEG (2014, background): “[43]), some studies implemented features based on the combination of symmetrical pairs of electrodes.”
EEG-Based Emotion Recognition in Music Listening (2010, background): “However, commonly reported alpha asymmetry at the F3–F4 pair related to valence emotion [7], [8] was missing from the top-30 list.”
Identifying Stable Patterns over Time for Emotion Recognition from EEG (2016, background): “Schmidt and Trainor [25] found that the pattern of asymmetrical frontal EEG activity distinguished valence, while for intensity, the overall frontal EEG activity did.”
A comparison of the discrete and dimensional models of emotion in music (2011, background): “The majority of studies on music and emotions have used excerpts of relatively well-known Western classical music pieces (e.g., Kreutz, Ott, Teichmann, Osawa, & Vaitl, 2008; Krumhansl, 1997; Nawrot, 2003; Schmidt & Trainor, 2001), which have been arbitrarily chosen by the researchers.”
The neuroaesthetics of music. (2013, methodology): “This model has been applied to music in many behavioral and neuroscientific studies (e.g., Krumhansl, 1997; North & Hargreaves, 1997; Schmidt & Trainor, 2001; Vieillard at al., 2008).”
What does the prefrontal cortex "do" in affect: perspectives on frontal EEG asymmetry research. (2004, background): “It is important to underscore the fact that even if condition or group differences are found in asymmetry, such differences could be superimposed upon bilateral variations in activity and these bilateral variations in activity may be functionally significant (see e.g.,Schmidt and Trainor, 2001).”
Exploring EEG Features in Cross-Subject Emotion Recognition (2018, background): “Schmidt and Trainor (2001) found the relatively higher left frontal EEG activity under exposure to happy musical excerpts and relatively higher right frontal EEG activity under exposure to sad musical excerpts, and the overall frontal EEG activity could distinguish the intensity of the emotions.”
Measuring Affect for the Study and Enhancement of Co-present Creative Collaboration (2013, background): “Functional MRI and EEG are able to identify felt emotions by analysing the brain’s response to affective stimuli such as images [18] and music [19].”
Effects of Musical Tempo and Mode on Arousal, Mood, and Spatial Abilities (2002, background): “Patterns of frontal electroencephalographic (EEG) activity reflect the valence (positive or negative) of music as well as its ability to induce arousal (Schmidt & Trainor, 2001).”
Music and emotion: electrophysiological correlates of the processing of pleasant and unpleasant music. (2007, background): “two EEG studies on musically induced emotions provided evidence in favor of the frontal alpha asymmetry: Schmidt and Trainor (2001) and Tsang et al.”
EEG Based Emotion Recognition by Combining Functional Connectivity Network and Local Activations (2019, background): “studies have also reported that different emotional states can usually be captured by the EEG spectral differences at anterior areas of the brain in the alpha band [2], [6].”
Brain organization for music processing. (2005, background): “Although the study of music as a means to express and induce emotions is a recent endeavor in neurosciences, a few studies (Blood et al. 1999, Peretz et al. 1998, Schmidt & Trainor 2001) have already highlighted important facts about music, emotions, and the brain.”
Exposure to music and cognitive performance: tests of children and adults (2007, background): “…impact of music on listeners’ emotional state is well documented (e.g. Gabrielsson, 2001; Husain et al., 2002; Krumhansl, 1997; Peretz, 2001; Schmidt and Trainor, 2001; Sloboda and Juslin, 2001; Thayer and Levenson, 1983; Thompson et al., 2001), as is the effect of emotional state on…”
Music and Language: A Developmental Comparison (2004, background): “These emotional responses are differentiable physiologically (Nyklícek, Thayer, & Van Doornen, 1997) and electrocortically (Schmidt & Trainor, 2001), and, in the case of the “chills” reaction, are linked to increased blood-flow in brain regions associated with emotion, motivation, and arousal…”