Music style is tightly connected with listeners’ emotional processes and neural activities. However, it remains unclear how the brain works when different music styles are processed emotionally. The current study analyzed the neural activation associated with five music styles during emotion-evoking. Twenty non-musicians participated in the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning and the emotional ratings of pleasure and arousal evoked by pop, rock, jazz, folk, and classical music. Results showed that classical music was associated with the highest pleasure rating and deactivation of the corpus callosum. Rock music was associated with the highest arousal rating and deactivation of the cingulate gyrus. Pop music activated the bilateral supplementary motor areas (SMA) and the superior temporal gyrus (STG) with moderate pleasure and arousal. As the first fMRI experiment investigating the relationship between the music style and emotion, it provides neural correlates of different music styles during emotion-evoking.

音乐风格与听众的情感过程和神经活动紧密相关。然而，目前尚不清楚当情感上处理不同的音乐风格时大脑如何工作。当前的研究分析了在唤起情感时与五种音乐风格相关的神经激活。二十位非音乐家参加了功能磁共振成像（fMRI）扫描，以及流行，摇滚，爵士，民间和古典音乐引起的愉悦和唤醒的情感等级。结果表明，古典音乐与call体的最高娱乐等级和失活有关。摇滚音乐与最高的唤醒等级和扣带回的失活有关。流行音乐以适度的愉悦和刺激感激活了双边辅助运动区（SMA）和颞上回（STG）。作为第一个功能磁共振成像实验，研究音乐风格与情感之间的关系，它在情感唤起过程中提供了不同音乐风格的神经相关性。