Nostalgia is an emotion that is most commonly associated with personally and socially
relevant memories. It is primarily positive in valence and is readily evoked by music. It is also�…

The chapter discusses recent studies of neural representations of musical emotions. Despite
an increasing number of empirical studies on the emotional effects of music, there is paucity�…

Recent studies have demonstrated increased activity in brain regions associated with
emotion and reward when listening to pleasurable music. Unexpected change in musical�…

Producing and perceiving music engage a wide range of sensorimotor, cognitive, and
emotional processes. Emotions are a central feature of the enjoyment of music, with a large�…

Participants listened to randomly selected excerpts of popular music and rated how
nostalgic each song made them feel. Nostalgia was stronger to the extent that a song was�…

Music can evoke different positive emotions, such as reward-related experiences of “fun,”
the experience of “tender positive” emotions, or extremely pleasurable experiences such as�…

Music evokes complex emotions beyond pleasant/unpleasant or happy/sad dichotomies
usually investigated in neuroscience. Here, we used functional neuroimaging with�…

Music is often used to regulate emotions and mood. Typically, music conveys and induces
emotions even when one does not attend to them. Studies on the neural substrates of�…

The number of studies investigating music processing in the human brain continues to
increase, with a large proportion of them focussing on the correlates of so‐called musical�…

The aim of this study was to investigate the brain processes underlying emotions during
natural music listening. To address this, we recorded high-density electroencephalography�…