Concentration(s):
Music | Cognitive Neuroscience
Music Capstone Project:
The Role of Striatal Dopamine in Negative Prediction Error During Musical Chills
I reviewed the course materials from “Music and Mind” to better understand the state of the research regarding psychology/neuroscience and music. Researchers have conducted significant amounts of studies finding that music can elicit emotions, can be rewarding, and can even evoke dopamine in specific areas of the brain when a listener experiences “chills.” Despite the exciting and widespread research into the neurophysiology behind music, no research has investigated the role of dopamine when listener’s have their expectations subverted in a negative way. In my project, I proposed an experiment in which I could better understand the response of dopamine when music that typically elicits “chills” is distorted at its peak.
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