Music’s ability to influence exercise performance is well known, but the converse, how exercise influences music listening, remains largely unknown. Exercise can elevate arousal, positive affect, and neurotransmitters including dopamine, which are involved in musical pleasure. Here we examine how exercise influences music enjoyment, and test for a modulatory role of arousal, affect, and dopamine. Before and after exercise (12 min of vigorous running) and a rest control session, participants (N = 20) listened to music clips and rated their enjoyment and subjective arousal; we also collected ratings of affect and eye-blink rates, an established predictor of dopamine activity. Ratings of musical enjoyment increased significantly after exercise, but not after the rest control condition. While changes in subjective arousal ratings did not differ between exercise and control conditions, change in subjective arousal correlated with change in music enjoyment. After exercise, the change in music enjoyment had a positive but non-significant correlation with change in eye-blink rates (r = .36). Positive affect increased more after exercise than after the control session, but the change in positive affect did not correlate with change in music enjoyment. In sum, exercise leads to increased musical enjoyment, and this effect was related to changes in arousal.

音乐影响运动表现的能力是众所周知的，但是相反，运动如何影响音乐的聆听，仍然是未知的。运动可以提高唤醒，积极影响以及包括音乐愉悦性在内的神经递质，包括多巴胺。在这里，我们研究了运动如何影响音乐享受，并测试了唤醒，影响和多巴胺的调节作用。运动前后（剧烈运动12分钟）和休息控制会话之前和之后，参与者（N= 20）听过音乐片段，并对它们的享受和主观唤醒进行评分；我们还收集了影响力和眨眼率的评级，这是多巴胺活性的既定指标。运动后的音乐享受等级显着提高，但在休息控制条件下没有提高。尽管锻炼和控制条件之间主观唤醒等级的变化没有差异，但是主观唤醒的变化与音乐享受的变化相关。运动后，音乐欣赏度的变化与眨眼频率的变化具有正相关但不显着相关（r= 0.36）。运动后的积极影响比对照组增加更多，但积极影响的变化与音乐享受的变化无关。总而言之，运动导致音乐享受的增加，而这种效果与唤醒的变化有关。