10:30 - 12:00
Wed-H5-Talk 8--81
Wed-Talk 8
Room: H5
Chair/s:
Thomas Jacobsen, Maria Manolika, Selina Maria Weiler
Multimodal and crossmodal predictions in the brain for experiencing music and art
Wed-H5-Talk 8-8102
Presented by: Elvira Brattico
Elvira Brattico
Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Aarhus, Denmark, Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari, Italy
Lately, the influential predictive processing (PP) framework for understsanding brain function has landed into the neuroaesthetic research field to elucidating the assessment of art objects when considered in isolation within a single sensory modality. In the realm of music neuroscience, compelling evidence has emerged highlighting the PP-related neural mechanisms that govern aesthetic preferences for, e.g., medium complex harmonies and rhythms. Similarly, within the domains of figurative arts and literature, several scholars have postulated the pivotal role of PP in shaping aesthetic emotions and judgments. However, artistic experiences are, by nature, situated and multisensorial. In our recent behavioral and neurophysiological studies, we investigated whether affective representational (i.e., semantically meaningful) predictions from one sensory modality could cross-modally modulate the neural responses to non-representational objects in another modality. Additionally, we delved into investigating how the summation of stimulation from multiple sensory channels might impact on the neural correlates and behavioral assessment of a classical opera by Mozart. Overall, our findings underscore the relevance of examining the neural mechanisms underlying the aesthetic experience in its eternity, embracing its multimodal and crossmodal richness.
Keywords: empirical aesthetics, neuroaesthetics, predictive processing, auditory cognitive neuroscience, music, art