Commentary: A Neurodynamic Perspective on Musical Enjoyment: The Role of Emotional Granularity

Frontiers in Psychology

Charlotte L. Doyle¹ 

关键词: music;    cognition;    emotion and music;    musical enjoyment;    phenomenology;    neurodynamics;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00457

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Taruffi and Koelsch (2014) found that even self-identified sad music may evoke a variety of feelings: nostalgia, peacefulness, sadness, tenderness, wonder, and/or transcendence. That research also suggested that these feelings may be related to the capacity for empathy—feeling with another, implying that music itself may be a virtual Other. Molnar-Szakacs and Overy (2006) propose a similar hypothesis on the neurodynamic level: music engages the mirror neuron systems related to both motion and emotion—a proposal to be tested empirically. Vuoskoski and Eerola (2017) added evidence that empathy is engaged in listening to sad music; they also reported research which showed that the relation between felt sadness and musical enjoyment was primarily mediated by the feeling of being moved.

【 授权许可】

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