Cerebral Lateralization of the Affect Evoked by Music

J Korean Neurol Assoc > Volume 4(1); 1986 > Article

Journal of the Korean Neurological Association 1986;4(1): 86-95.

음악으로 유발된 정동의 대뇌측향화

이종인, 김명정

부산의료원 신경과. 부산대학교 신경정신과.

Cerebral Lateralization of the Affect Evoked by Music

Jong-In Lee, M.D., Myung-Jung Kim, M.D.*

Department of Neurology Pusan Medical Center, Department of Neuropsychiatry, Pusan National University*

Abstract

In order to study the cerebral lateralization of the affective response induced by music, the authors chose healthy, right-handed, male students and several pieces of tape-recorded music eliciting either positive or negative affect were given to the left ear to one group and to the right ear to the other. The affctive responses were subjectively measured by subjects after each music by means of the Visual Analogue Scale to compare between the two groups. The results were as follows; 1. Pleasant and comfortable music elicited significantly greater affective response in the left-ear group compared to the right-ear group. 2. After disharmonious and unpleasant music, no difference in the degree of affective response was noted between the two groups. From the above results and a survey of the previous literatures on the subject, the authors suggest that the cerebral lateralization of the affective response may be determined by the mode of affecteliciting stimuli and/or the variety of the affect involved.