NeuroscienceMusic Perception An Interdisciplinary JournalPeer-reviewed
Enjoy The Violence: Is appreciation for extreme music the result of cognitive control over the threat response system?
Rosalie Ollivier, Louise Goupil, Marco Liuni, Jean‐Julien Aucouturier
The paper investigates why metal music fans enjoy extreme music despite its similarity to threat signals, finding that their appreciation depends on higher-order cognition rather than different low-level threat responses.
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