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Evidence for a neural signature of musical preference during silence

Evidence for a neural signature of musical preference during silence.

Coralie Joucla
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Magali Nicolier
Julie Giustiniani
Gaelle Brunotte
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Nicolas Noiret
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Julie Monnin
Eloi Magnin
Lionel Pazart
Thierry Moulin
Emmanuel Haffen
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Pierre Vandel
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Damien Gabriel
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Abstract

One of the most basic and person-specific affective responses to music is liking. The present investigation sought to determine whether liking was preserved during spontaneous auditory imagery. To this purpose, we inserted two-second silent intervals into liked and disliked songs, a method known to automatically recreate a mental image of these songs. Neural correlates of musical preference were measured by high-density electroencephalography in twenty subjects who had to listen to a set of five pre-selected unknown songs the same number of times for two weeks. Time frequency analysis of the two most liked and the two most disliked songs confirmed the presence of neural responses related to liking. At the beginning of silent intervals (400-900 ms and 1000-1300 ms), significant differences in theta activity were originating from the inferior frontal and superior temporal gyrus. These two brain structures are known to work together to process various aspects of music and are also activated when measuring liking while listening to music. At the end of silent intervals (1400-1900 ms), significant alpha activity differences originating from the insula were observed, whose exact role remains to be explored. Although exposure was controlled for liked and disliked songs, liked songs were rated as more familiar, underlying the strong relationship that exists between liking, exposure, and familiarity.
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hal-03630166 , version 1 (04-04-2022)

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Coralie Joucla, Magali Nicolier, Julie Giustiniani, Gaelle Brunotte, Nicolas Noiret, et al.. Evidence for a neural signature of musical preference during silence. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2018, 125, pp.50-56. ⟨10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2018.02.007⟩. ⟨hal-03630166⟩

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