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.2019 Feb 26;116(9):3793-3798.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1811878116. Epub 2019 Jan 22.

Dopamine modulates the reward experiences elicited by music

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Dopamine modulates the reward experiences elicited by music

Laura Ferreri et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A..

Abstract

Understanding how the brain translates a structured sequence of sounds, such as music, into a pleasant and rewarding experience is a fascinating question which may be crucial to better understand the processing of abstract rewards in humans. Previous neuroimaging findings point to a challenging role of the dopaminergic system in music-evoked pleasure. However, there is a lack of direct evidence showing that dopamine function is causally related to the pleasure we experience from music. We addressed this problem through a double blind within-subject pharmacological design in which we directly manipulated dopaminergic synaptic availability while healthy participants (n = 27) were engaged in music listening. We orally administrated to each participant a dopamine precursor (levodopa), a dopamine antagonist (risperidone), and a placebo (lactose) in three different sessions. We demonstrate that levodopa and risperidone led to opposite effects in measures of musical pleasure and motivation: while the dopamine precursor levodopa, compared with placebo, increased the hedonic experience and music-related motivational responses, risperidone led to a reduction of both. This study shows a causal role of dopamine in musical pleasure and indicates that dopaminergic transmission might play different or additive roles than the ones postulated in affective processing so far, particularly in abstract cognitive activities.

Keywords: dopamine; motivation; music; pleasure; reward.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Changes with respect to placebo condition under levodopa and risperidone (means ± SEM) for music-related reward responses. (A) Amount of time reporting chills, high pleasure (HP), low pleasure (LP), and no pleasure (NP) real-time ratings (i.e., while listening to each song, including self- and experimenter-selected songs; e.g., risperidone and levodopa, respectively, decreased and increased by 43% and 65% the time reporting chills with respect to the placebo condition). Chills values include chills responders only; HP, LP, and NP values include the entire sample. (B) EDA changes associated with high-pleasure real-time ratings. (C) Motivational ratings, i.e., willingness to spend money for each excerpt. *P < 0.05.
Fig. 2.
Fig. 2.
EDA changes (means, solid lines ± SEM, lighter colors) over time with respect to placebo condition under levodopa (green) and risperidone (red) during music listening associated with high-rewarding excerpts (i.e., high minus low real-time liking rates) (A) shows very similar responses to EDA changes associated with high-rewarding cues (i.e., high monetary gain minus low monetary gain) in the MID control task (B).
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  • Musical pleasure and musical emotions.
    Goupil L, Aucouturier JJ.Goupil L, et al.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Feb 26;116(9):3364-3366. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1900369116. Epub 2019 Feb 15.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019.PMID:30770455Free PMC article.No abstract available.

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