Liila Taruffi

Effects of Sad and Happy Music on Mind-Wandering and the Default Mode Network

Scientific Reports October 25, 2017 Liila Taruffi, Corinna Pehrs, Stavros Skouras et al. 177 citations

Music is a ubiquitous phenomenon in human cultures, mostly due to its power to evoke and regulate emotions. However, effects of music evoking different emotional experiences such as sadness and happiness on cognition, and in particular on self-generated thought, are unknown. Here we use probe-caught thought sampling and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the influence...