The impact of visual art and emotional sounds in specific musical anhedonia

Progress in Brain Research
Ernest Mas-HerreroAntoni Rodríguez-Fornells

Abstract

A small percentage of healthy individuals do not find music pleasurable, a condition known as specific musical anhedonia. These individuals have no impairment in music perception which might account for their anhedonia; their sensitivity to primary and secondary rewards is also preserved, and they do not show generalized depression. However, it is still unclear whether this condition is entirely specific to music, or rather reflects a more general deficit in experiencing pleasure, either from aesthetic rewards in general, or in response to other types of emotional sounds. The aim of this study is to determine whether individuals with specific musical anhedonia also show blunted emotional responses from other aesthetic rewards or emotional acoustic stimuli different than music. In two tasks designed to assess sensitivity to visual art and emotional sounds, we tested 13 individuals previously identified as specific musical anhedonics, together with two more groups with average (musical hedonic, HDN) and high (musical hyperhedonics, HHDN) sensitivity to experience reward from music. Differences among groups in skin conductance response and behavioral measures in response to pleasantness were analyzed in both tasks. Notably, specif...Continue Reading

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Aug 31, 2018·ELife·Pablo RipollésAntoni Rodriguez-Fornells
Feb 7, 2020·Perspectives on Psychological Science : a Journal of the Association for Psychological Science·Martin Skov, Marcos Nadal
Sep 25, 2019·Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences·Amy M Belfi, Psyche Loui
Nov 22, 2019·Frontiers in Psychology·Aenne A Brielmann, Denis G Pelli
Jan 14, 2021·Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews·Ernest Mas-HerreroRobert J Zatorre

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