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Neuro-cognitive Systems underlying Music’s Affective Impact in Film

Date
Dec 15, 2016
Time
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker
Dr. Fernando Bravo
Affiliation
TU Dresden, Dresden Mucis Cognition Lab (DMCL)
Series
TUD NIC Kolloquium
Language
de
Main Topic
Psychologie
Other Topics
Informatik, Psychologie, Gesellschaft, Philos., Erzieh.
Description
Music elicits distinct connotations, which are the outcome of associations made between its structural characteristics and different objects, concepts or states belonging to the extra-musical world. This connotative dimension of musical information has been frequently employed in film sound to influence the emotional comprehension of visual narratives. Film theorists have long acknowledged the affective function that music performs in film, and during the past two decades several empirical studies have shown that music does in fact exert a significant influence upon the perception and interpretation of visual information. However, so far, no empirical work has examined the precise neural mechanisms implicated during this processes. I will describe a series of audiovisual experiments, which were designed to explore the neuro-cognitive systems underlying the spontaneous retrieval of music-evoked associations within the movie-viewing experience. These tasks require participants to emotionally interpret ambiguous visual information biased by musical cues. Situations that entail perceptual uncertainty rely on prior beliefs (i.e. memory systems) to inform our perception; consequently, they facilitate the use of methods that can illuminate the ways in which associations elicited by the music may influence the interpretation of visual information. The investigation of the functional anatomy underlying music’s affective impact in film image could further have important implications for the advancement of affective neuroscience. A better comprehension of music-evoked emotions during the cinematic experience, and a precise characterization of the brain mechanisms involved may prove valuable for deepening our understanding of human emotion.
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