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.