Christine D Tsang, Laurel J Trainor, Diane L Santesso, S L Tasker, and Louis A Schmidt (2001)
Frontal EEG Responses as a Function of Affective Musical Features
In: The Biological Foundations of Music, ed. by Robert J. Zatorre and Isabelle Peretz. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 930, chap. 44, pp. 439-442.
Recent models of emotional processing have suggested that the pattern of frontal EEG activity changes with the emotion experienced.1,2 Greater left frontal activity has been found to be associated with positive affect, while greater right frontal activity has been associated with negative affect. In a previous study, we showed that this general approach applied to emotions induced by music as well.3 Specifically, we found greater relative left frontal activation to musical excerpts expressing joy and happiness and greater relative right frontal activation to those expressing fear and sadness.
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