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Robert J. Zatorre

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Open access Sep 2026

Perceived pleasantness mediates the effects of high-arousal and emotionally complex music on pain.

ABSTRACT Music effectively reduces pain, yet the mechanisms underlying music-induced hypoalgesia remain poorly understood. We investigated how latent perceptual dimensions of music influence pain by examining both stimulus properties and subjective evaluations of those properties in 2 experiments. One hundred thirty-fo...

Élise Desbarats, Darius Valevicius, Anaïs Lépine Lopez et al. · Pain · 0 citations

Open access Sep 2026

Left-DLPFC theta-burst stimulation produces delayed effects on musical pleasure without affecting piano-melody learning

Reward operates as a cycle in which a stimulus produces a pleasure response, and the degree of pleasure experienced reinforces the behaviours that lead back to it. Music provides a useful model for examining this cycle because it is intrinsically pleasurable, can be learned, and engages reward-related frontostriatal ci...

Sofia Simonetto-Rizk, Ya-Nan Liu, Jérémie Ginzburg et al. · bioRxiv · 0 citations

Open access Jul 2026

Decoding Individual Musical Pitches in Perception and Imagery using Evoked Theta and Beta Power in EEG

Imagery evokes perceptual-like experiences and recruits similar neural activity to perception. In music, this shared activity has already been established in secondary auditory cortex, yet the nature of the representation is not fully understood; specifically, it is not clear whether the identity of individual imagined...

Miyoung Chung, Charlotte Van Barr, Andrea R. Halpern et al. · bioRxiv · 0 citations