Altered music emotion experiences of congenital amusia: from the perspective of reward
These findings suggest individuals with amusia exhibit music-specific deficits in the pleasure derived from music, together with an alteration in emotion experience to minor-key music. Overall, the findings indicate an alteration in the use of pitch-derived cues when evaluating musical emotions and their relation to reward. From a reward perspective, these findings guide neuroimaging studies toward clarifying how pitch-based cues influence music-induced emotion experiences in congenital amusia.
Authors
- Qiaoping Lian
- Sizhu Huyang
- Yajun Yan
- Zhishuai Jin
- Qixiong Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1484-8016)
- Lichen Jiang
- Ming Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5421-8190)
- Daxing Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6786-8109)
- Lu Xia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5646-2648)
- Jinyu Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6940-4703)
Institutions
- Central South University (CN)
- National Clinical Research (US)
- Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University (CN)
- Henan Normal University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Psychology
- Published
- 2025-11-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-03664-2
- Primary Topic
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China