Neural correlates of emotional responses to music: An EEG study

- We record EEG while participants listen to a large set of music.
- Participants report their induced emotional responses.
- Asymmetry in beta and gamma frequency bands relate to induced emotion.
- Sparse long range networks are significantly modulated by music induced emotion.

This paper presents an EEG study into the neural correlates of music-induced emotions. We presented participants with a large dataset containing musical pieces in different styles, and asked them to report on their induced emotional responses.We found neural correlates of music-induced emotion in a number of frequencies over the pre-frontal cortex. Additionally, we found a set of patterns of functional connectivity, defined by inter-channel coherence measures, to be significantly different between groups of music-induced emotional responses.