Altered music emotion experiences of congenital amusia: from the perspective of reward

These findings suggest individuals with amusia exhibit music-specific deficits in the pleasure derived from music, together with an alteration in emotion experience to minor-key music. Overall, the findings indicate an alteration in the use of pitch-derived cues when evaluating musical emotions and their relation to reward. From a reward perspective, these findings guide neuroimaging studies toward clarifying how pitch-based cues influence music-induced emotion experiences in congenital amusia.