Andrade, Alexandre da Rocha Freire de, 1971-Lima, CésarMoreira, Margarida da Silva2025-01-152025-01-1520242024http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/97200Tese de mestrado, Ciência Cognitiva, 2024, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de CiênciasMusical training is a continuous process that can enhance motor control, acoustic perception, and the integration of cognitive function. Neuroimaging studies also indicate that music activates brain regions related to emotional processing and social cognition, suggesting that music training may improve emotional and social perception. This study investigates whether formal music training is associated to enhanced emotion recognition processes in both visual and auditory domains, using behavioral and neurophysiological measures. We recruited 72 participants, that were divided into musicians’ group and control group, to perform tasks involving music perception, cognitive skills, and emotion recognition in facial expressions, prosodic speech, and non-verbal vocalizations. Implicit emotion recognition tasks were evaluated using electroencephalography (EEG), with a focus on event-related potentials (ERPs), and functional connectivity (FCon). Explicit emotion recognition tasks were evaluated focusing on accuracy and response time (RT). Implicit emotion recognition results showed that musicians had a quasi-significantly stronger N100 component in the Fronto-Central region, when presented with emotional prosody, and a longer peak latency in the P100 component in the Right-Temporal region when presented with non-verbal vocalizations. FCon analysis revealed lower connectivity in the alpha frequency band between the Fronto-Central and Right Temporal regions for the musicians’ group, when presented with negative nonverbal vocalizations. Behavioral analysis showed no significant differences in explicit emotion recognition between groups. Overall, musicians showed a distinct implicit emotion recognition in Fronto-Central and Right Temporal regions when presented with auditory stimuli, as evidenced by ERPs, and a lower connectivity between these two regions in the same conditions. Nevertheless, further research is needed to establish causality between music training and these effects.engprocessos socio-emocionaisreconhecimento de emoçõesconectividade funcionalpotenciais evocadostreino musicalTeses de mestrado - 2024master thesis203880650