The study examined the impact of music’s emotional content on the aesthetic experience of visual artworks during combined stimulation. The hypothesis posited that incongruity of emotional states induced by music would impede accurate comprehension of emotional aspect of artworks. A total of 18 university students were presented with 192 paintings and 20 emotionally congruent or incongruent musical excerpts. Both paintings and music were validated as belonging to four emotional categories with different valence (positive vs negative) and arousal (high vs low). ERP data showed that visual N170 and auditory N400 were modulated by stimuli emotional valence and that negative visual stimuli attracted more attention than positive ones (larger P300). The multimodal LP was modulated by the stimulus emotional congruence, with larger responses to positive than negative congruent pairs. During multimodal artistic simulation, the most active brain areas were the left middle frontal gyrus, superior frontal gyrus, right precuneus, and right middle temporal gyrus. Taken together, these results suggest that visual stimuli with negative valence attract more attention than positive ones and that congruent pairs are more pleasant than incongruent. Also, these findings suggest that the neural basis of the emergence of aesthetic sensations may be similar for both auditory and visual emotional processing.

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揭示艺术和音乐中情感的相互作用：与事件相关的潜在调查

该研究考察了组合刺激过程中音乐的情感内容对视觉艺术品的审美体验的影响。该假设认为，音乐引起的情感状态的不协调会妨碍对艺术品情感方面的准确理解。总共向 18 名大学生展示了 192 幅绘画和 20 首情感一致或不一致的音乐片段。绘画和音乐都被验证属于具有不同效价（积极与消极）和唤醒程度（高与低）的四种情感类别。 ERP 数据显示，视觉 N170 和听觉 N400 受到刺激情绪效价的调节，并且负面视觉刺激比正面刺激更能吸引注意力（P300 较大）。多模态 LP 受到刺激情绪一致性的调节，对正向一致对的反应比对负向一致对的反应更大。在多模态艺术模拟过程中，最活跃的大脑区域是左侧额中回、额上回、右侧楔前叶和右侧颞中回。总而言之，这些结果表明，具有负价的视觉刺激比正价的视觉刺激更能吸引人们的注意，并且一致的配对比不一致的配对更令人愉快。此外，这些发现表明，听觉和视觉情感处理中美感出现的神经基础可能是相似的。