The Neuroscience of Music and Emotion
Completed by Ashwini Bhandiwad
November 5, 2025
6 hours (approximately)
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What you will learn
Name the major lobes and pathways of the brain, and describe how auditory, motor and reward systems work together to perceive melody and rhythm.
Describe links between rhythm, tonality and appetite for novelty that mediate the emotional responses to music.
Define and describe emotional arousal versus valence, music-evoked chills, musical anhedonia, and how pleasure follows predictions.
List seven dimensions of musical pleasure and describe the listener profile.
Skills you will gain
- Category: Music Theory
- Category: Aesthetics
- Category: Science and Research
- Category: Empathy & Emotional Intelligence
- Category: Music
- Category: Culture
- Category: Sensory Systems Analysis
- Category: Anatomy
- Category: Neurology
- Category: Psychology

