Study Finds Brain Scans Can Predict Music-induced Emotions, Deduce Type of Melody

Music has the power to trigger emotions in us but a new study by scientists have found that they can ‘see’ the kind of melody which is being played by scanning an individual’s brain. Scientists at the University of Turku in Finland used machine learning and functional magnetic resonance imaging and came to the conclusion that the auditory and motor cortex are activated when happy or sad music plays, Daily Mail reported. The study, published in the Oxford Academic said, “Music can induce strong subjective experience of emotions, but it is debated whether these responses engage the same neural circuits as emotions elicited by biologically significant events,’ researchers shared in the study published in Oxford Academic. Explaining how they came to the conclusion, researchers said they studied the functional neural basis of music-induced emotions in many people who were made to listen to emotionally engaging music pieces as their haemodynamic brain activity was measured with functional magnetic resonance imaging, Daily Mail reported.