Brain Advance Access published online on February 7, 2005
Brain, doi:10.1093/brain/awh420
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1 Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Summary Music constitutes an ideal means to create a sense of suspense in films. However, there has been minimal investigation into the underlying cerebral organization for perceiving danger created by music. In comparison, the amygdala's role in recognition of fear in non-musical contexts has been well established. The present study sought to fill this gap in exploring how patients with amygdala resection recognize emotional expression in music. To this aim, we tested 16 patients with left (LTR; n = 8) or right (RTR; n = 8) medial temporal resection (including amygdala) for the relief of medically intractable seizures and 16 matched controls in an emotion recognition task involving instrumental music. The musical selections were purposely created to induce fear, peacefulness, happiness and sadness. Participants were asked to rate to what extent each musical passage expressed these four emotions on 10-point scales. In order to check for the presence of a perceptual problem, the same musical selections were presented to the participants in an error detection task. None of the patients was found to perform below controls in the perceptual task. In contrast, both LTR and RTR patients were found to be impaired in the recognition of scary music. Recognition of happy and sad music was normal. These findings suggest that the anteromedial temporal lobe (including the amygdala) plays a role in the recognition of danger in a musical context.
Received September 13, 2004
Accepted December 23, 2004
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Impaired recognition of scary music following unilateral temporal lobe excision
2 CNRS-UPR640, Paris, France; Department of Psychology (URECA), Université de Lille 3, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
3 Department of Neuroradiology, La Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France; CNRS-UPR640, Paris, France
4 Music Department, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
5 Department of Epilepsy, La Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France; INSERM-U739, Paris, France
6 Department of Epilepsy, La Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France; Department of Psychology (URECA), Université de Lille 3, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France; CNRS-UPR640, Paris, France
Isabelle Peretz, E-mail: isabelle.peretz{at}umontreal.ca
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