Recent meta analyses suggest there is a common brain network involved in processing emotion in music and sounds. However, no studies have directly compared the neural substrates of equivalent emotional Western classical music and emotional environmental sounds. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging we investigated whether brain activation in motor cortex, interoceptive cortex, and Broca's language area during an auditory emotional appraisal task differed as a function of stimulus type. Activation was relatively greater to music in motor and interoceptive cortex - areas associated with movement and internal physical feelings - and relatively greater to emotional environmental sounds in Broca's area. We conclude that emotional environmental sounds are appraised through verbal identification of the source, and that emotional Western classical music is appraised through evaluation of bodily feelings. While there is clearly a common core emotion-processing network underlying all emotional appraisal, modality-specific contextual information may be important for understanding the contribution of voluntary versus automatic appraisal mechanisms.

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相对于运动，听觉和语言大脑区域中的情感环境声音，西方情感古典音乐的偏好激活。

最近的荟萃分析表明，存在着一个共同的大脑网络，参与处理音乐和声音中的情感。但是，没有研究直接比较等效的西方古典音乐和情感环境声音的神经底物。使用功能磁共振成像，我们调查了在听觉情绪评估任务期间，运动皮层，感觉皮层和Broca语言区域的大脑激活是否因刺激类型而异。相对于运动和内部感觉相关的运动和感觉皮层中的音乐，激活相对更大；而对于Broca区域中的情感环境声音，激活相对更大。我们得出的结论是，情感环境的声音是通过言语识别来源来评估的，西方情感的古典音乐通过对身体感受的评估来评估。尽管显然有一个共同的核心情感处理网络作为所有情感评估的基础，但特定于情态的情境信息对于理解自愿评估与自动评估机制的贡献可能很重要。