The sound of silence is music to the heart

Larsen, Peter

doi:10.1136/hrt.2005.071902

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“…The HR recordings of two Hindi musicians throughout their concerts (complete ragas which featured slow and fast tempos) showed a cardiac activity similar to that of Western classical musicians (Table 5 , Figure 6 ), in spite of being a type of music with a demonstrated relaxing effect on cardiac frequency, at least on the part of the listener [ 16 , 17 ].…”

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Heart rate in professional musicians

Iñesta

Cepeda

García

et al. 2008

J Occup Med Toxicol

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Heart rate in professional musicians

Iñesta

Cepeda

García

et al. 2008

J Occup Med Toxicol

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“…We also showed that the audience’s heart rate changed in accordance with the tempo of music only in the live condition. One of the features of biological oscillators such as heart beat and respiration is to synchronize with, or to be entrained by, external inputs [ 22 , 23 ]. Some researchers have shown that the listener’s heart beat tends to be entrained by the tempo of music (e.g., [ 24 ]) while others have reported no specific relations between them (e.g., [ 25 ]).…”

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How Live Performance Moves the Human Heart

2016

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We investigated how the audience member’s physiological reactions differ as a function of listening context (i.e., live versus recorded music contexts). Thirty-seven audience members were assigned to one of seven pianists’ performances and listened to his/her live performances of six pieces (fast and slow pieces by Bach, Schumann, and Debussy). Approximately 10 weeks after the live performance, each of the audience members returned to the same room and listened to the recorded performances of the same pianists’ via speakers. We recorded the audience members’ electrocardiograms in listening to the performances in both conditions, and analyzed their heart rates and the spectral features of the heart-rate variability (i.e., HF/TF, LF/HF). Results showed that the audience’s heart rate was higher for the faster than the slower piece only in the live condition. As compared with the recorded condition, the audience’s sympathovagal balance (LF/HF) was less while their vagal nervous system (HF/TF) was activated more in the live condition, which appears to suggest that sharing the ongoing musical moments with the pianist reduces the audience’s physiological stress. The results are discussed in terms of the audience’s superior attention and temporal entrainment to live performance.

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“…Entrainment is a broadly used term that, in the context of human behavior and physiology, reflects the voluntary or involuntary synchronization of our brains and bodies to the environment 4 . For example, the tempo of a song can naturally alter our breathing rate and heart rate 5 . As a real-life example, choir singers not only harmonise their voices, they can also synchronise their heartbeats 6 .…”

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The calming effect of a new wearable device during the anticipation of public speech

Azevedo

Bennett

Bilicki

et al. 2017

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We assessed the calming effect of doppel, a wearable device that delivers heartbeat-like tactile stimulation on the wrist. We tested whether the use of doppel would have a calming effect on physiological arousal and subjective reports of state anxiety during the anticipation of public speech, a validated experimental task that is known to induce anxiety. Two groups of participants were tested in a single-blind design. Both groups wore the device on their wrist during the anticipation of public speech, and were given the cover story that the device was measuring blood pressure. For only one group, the device was turned on and delivered a slow heartbeat-like vibration. Participants in the doppel active condition displayed lower increases in skin conductance responses relative to baseline and reported lower anxiety levels compared to the control group. Therefore, the presence, as opposed to its absence, of a slow rhythm, which in the present study was instantiated as an auxiliary slow heartbeat delivered through doppel, had a significant calming effect on physiological arousal and subjective experience during a socially stressful situation. This finding is discussed in relation to past research on responses and entrainment to rhythms, and their effects on arousal and mood.

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The sound of silence is music to the heart

Cited by 18 publications

References 13 publications

Heart rate in professional musicians

Heart rate in professional musicians

How Live Performance Moves the Human Heart

The calming effect of a new wearable device during the anticipation of public speech

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