Alpha and beta cortical activity during guitar playing: task complexity and audiovisual stimulus analysis

Leite, José Artur Aragão; Santos, Mateus Antônio Cândido Dos; Silva, Rafael Mariano Camilo da; Andrade, Adriano O.; Silva, Gustavo Moreira da; Bazan, Rodrigo; Souza, Luciane Aparecida Pascucci Sande de; Luvizutto, Gustavo José

doi:10.1080/08990220.2020.1784130

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“…In a study by Schalles and Pineda (2015) [48], beta band power over sensorimotor scalp showed increased suppression during listening to the learned song as contrasted to the scrambled song. Likewise, Aragão Leite et al (2020) [49] observed an increase in the beta wave activity in the bilateral visual cortexes during complex music execution. Thus, our results of increased beta/gamma in excited playing condition might also reflect more motor effort and increased information transfer during the processing of emotions [50] as required to transfer excited emotion in comparison to neutral, relaxed, and to some extent depressed conditions.…”

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Spectral Characteristics of EEG during Active Emotional Musical Performance

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Voicikas

Bernhofs

et al. 2021

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The research on neural correlates of intentional emotion communication by the music performer is still limited. In this study, we attempted to evaluate EEG patterns recorded from musicians who were instructed to perform a simple piano score while manipulating their manner of play to express specific contrasting emotions and self-rate the emotion they reflected on the scales of arousal and valence. In the emotional playing task, participants were instructed to improvise variations in a manner by which the targeted emotion is communicated. In contrast, in the neutral playing task, participants were asked to play the same piece precisely as written to obtain data for control over general patterns of motor and sensory activation during playing. The spectral analysis of the signal was applied as an initial step to be able to connect findings to the wider field of music-emotion research. The experimental contrast of emotional playing vs. neutral playing was employed to probe brain activity patterns differentially involved in distinct emotional states. The tasks of emotional and neutral playing differed considerably with respect to the state of intended-to-transfer emotion arousal and valence levels. The EEG activity differences were observed between distressed/excited and neutral/depressed/relaxed playing.

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Spectral Characteristics of EEG during Active Emotional Musical Performance

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Voicikas

Bernhofs

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“…With regard to the observed relative alpha waves in the cerebral lobe, alpha waves in the experimental group were relatively more active in the frontal, parietal, temporal, and central lobes compared to those in the control group. For Alpha waves, which are a basic brain wave in the 8-13 Hz band (Leite, 2020;Molina del Río, Guevara, Hernández González, Hidalgo Aguirre, & Cruz Aguilar, 2019), it is considered that an idle brain state was induced in the experimental group, in which the brain can be prepared for a state of comfortable relaxation or concentration.…”

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Analyses of the Effects of Humanities Education on Brain Waves of the Frontal, Parietal, and Temporal Regions

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Kim²,

Hyun³

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This study was conducted targeting college students majoring in science and engineering, who were divided into an experimental group who took a humanities course and a control group who did not. After the experimental group took a humanities course, the brain wave activity of the frontal, parietal, temporal, and central regions of the two groups was measured using electroencephalography systems, and the electroencephalogram (EEG) waveforms of the anterior cerebrum were comparatively analyzed. A total of 67 subjects participated in the experiment, with 36 in the experimental group and 31 in the control group. According to the International 10-20 system, an international standard for EEG measurement, 7 electrodes (Cz, F3, F4, P3, P4, T3, T4) were attached to the cerebral scalp, and 2 reference electrodes were attached to both earlobes. These were attached after adjusting the resistance to the minimum value. The experimental group took a humanities course called "Understanding Beauty" for two hours twice a week over a period of 15 weeks. This course aimed to develop students’ imaginations to overcome a fact-centered world. After each lecture, the experimental group was asked to sit in a comfortable position with their eyes closed in a dark and quiet environment, and EEG measurements were started when their brain waveforms became stable. EEG measurements were also taken for the control group who did not take the course, at the same time and in the same manner. The measurements were conducted for about 10 minutes. The pattern in EEG changes between the two groups over time was analyzed by dividing them into alpha waves (8-13 Hz), theta waves (4-8 Hz), and beta waves (13-3 Hz). Based on the analysis results, for relative alpha waves, the difference between the mean vectors of all 7 variables was significant depending on the treatment (lecture attendance) (F(7, 59)=11.790, p<0.001). The variation over time between the experimental and control groups was significant (F(21,45)=3.575, p<0.001), indicating that there was an interaction effect between repeated measures and the groups. For relative beta waves, the difference between the mean vectors of all 7 variables was significant depending on the treatment (F(7, 59)=12.628, p<0.001). The variation over time between the two groups was significant (F(21,45)=3.388, p<0.001), suggesting that there was an interaction effect between repeated measures and the groups. For relative theta waves, the difference between the mean vectors of all 7 variables was significant depending on the treatment (F(7, 59)=5.301, p<0.001). The variation over time between the two groups was significant (F(21,45)=3.388, p<0.001), which means that there was an interaction effect between repeated measures and the groups.

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Electrophysiological Correlation Underlying the Effects of Music Preference on the Prefrontal Cortex Using a Brain–Computer Interface

Tseng

2021

Sensors

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This study aims to research the task of recognising brain activities in the prefrontal cortex that correspond to music at different preference levels. Since task performance regarding the effects of the subjects’ favourite music can lead to better outcomes, we focus on the physical interpretation of electroencephalography (EEG) bands underlying the preference level for music. The experiment was implemented using a continuous response digital interface for the preference classification of three types of musical stimuli. The results showed that favourite songs more significantly evoked frontal theta than did the music of low and moderate preference levels. Additionally, correlations of frontal theta with cognitive state indicated that the frontal theta is associated not only with the cognitive state but also with emotional processing. These findings demonstrate that favourite songs can have more positive effects on listeners than less favourable music and suggest that theta and lower alpha in the frontal cortex are good indicators of both cognitive state and emotion.

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Alpha and beta cortical activity during guitar playing: task complexity and audiovisual stimulus analysis

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Spectral Characteristics of EEG during Active Emotional Musical Performance

Spectral Characteristics of EEG during Active Emotional Musical Performance

Analyses of the Effects of Humanities Education on Brain Waves of the Frontal, Parietal, and Temporal Regions

Electrophysiological Correlation Underlying the Effects of Music Preference on the Prefrontal Cortex Using a Brain–Computer Interface

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