Emotional Responses to Music

For my illustrations, I want to consider trying to create an emotional response tied in with the message of the music tracks/band.

Here is a short excerpt from an article about what is it about music that creates such powerful emotional responses.


" By mapping the brain activity of a group of subjects while they listened to music, a researcher at the University of California, Davis, now thinks he has the answer: The region of the brain where memories of our past are supported and retrieved also serves as a hub that links familiar music, memories and emotion.

The discovery may help to explain why music can elicit strong responses from people with Alzheimer's disease, said the study's author, Petr Janata, associate professor of psychology at UC Davis' Center for Mind and Brain. The hub is located in the medial prefrontal cortex region — right behind the forehead — and one of the last areas of the brain to atrophy over the course of the disease."

The article goes on to talk about how music and memory are linked in the brain.

Sourced at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090223221230.htm