This article describes how aesthetic enjoyment accompanying musical activities can empower individuals in health and disease. First, we explain the biological determinants of music enjoyment and how they can be studied. In doing so, we distinguish between core sensory pleasure and conscious liking, and we illustrate their respective contributions to aesthetic appreciation and expressive interaction with music. Second, we review findings illustrating the long-term impact of listening to favourite music on the brains of healthy musicians as well as on the brains and behaviour of individuals with pathological symptoms. Based on these findings, we propose a set of putative neural mechanisms underlying aesthetic empowerment through music. We also emphasize the importance of considering individual differences in sensitivity to aesthetic experiences of music, as evidenced, for instance, by neuroimaging and imaging genetics studies, drawing the connections between dopamine neurotransmission and dopaminergic genes with the reactivity of music–brain functions.

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音乐赋予审美力量

本文介绍伴随音乐活动的审美享受如何增强个人的健康和疾病能力。首先，我们解释音乐享受的生物学决定因素以及如何研究它们。这样做，我们区分了核心的感官愉悦感和有意识的喜好，并说明了它们各自对审美和音乐表达互动的贡献。其次，我们回顾发现说明听喜爱音乐对健康音乐家的大脑以及具有病理症状的个人的大脑和行为的长期影响。基于这些发现，我们提出了一套通过音乐赋予审美力量的假定神经机制。