Using music as a signal for biofeedback

Bergström, Ilias; Seinfeld, Sofia; Arroyo-Palacios, Jorge; Slater, Mel; Sánchez-Vives, María V.

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2013.04.013

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“…Second, given the known potential for significant improvement with training in mu-based BCI devices (Neuper et al, 2006), novices such as those tested here have the potential with continued training to significantly improve accuracy and facility with the instrument. The use of scalar musical tones—rather than non-musical sound or visual biofeedback—may confer a training advantage: the benefits of music for arousal motivation for both training and therapeutics have been shown (Bergstrom et al, 2014). Third, the use of a musical feedback-based EEG device with responsiveness noticeable to the user may hold promise for patients—such as those with locked-in syndrome—who are severely incapacitated and may be more likely to respond to auditory (and specifically musical) stimulus and feedback than to visual stimulus and feedback.…”

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The Encephalophone: A Novel Musical Biofeedback Device using Conscious Control of Electroencephalogram (EEG)

Deuel

Pampin

Sundstrom

et al. 2017

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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A novel musical instrument and biofeedback device was created using electroencephalogram (EEG) posterior dominant rhythm (PDR) or mu rhythm to control a synthesized piano, which we call the Encephalophone. Alpha-frequency (8–12 Hz) signal power from PDR in the visual cortex or from mu rhythm in the motor cortex was used to create a power scale which was then converted into a musical scale, which could be manipulated by the individual in real time. Subjects could then generate different notes of the scale by activation (event-related synchronization) or de-activation (event-related desynchronization) of the PDR or mu rhythms in visual or motor cortex, respectively. Fifteen novice normal subjects were tested in their ability to hit target notes presented within a 5-min trial period. All 15 subjects were able to perform more accurately (average of 27.4 hits, 67.1% accuracy for visual cortex/PDR signaling; average of 20.6 hits, 57.1% accuracy for mu signaling) than a random note generation (19.03% accuracy). Moreover, PDR control was significantly more accurate than mu control. This shows that novice healthy individuals can control music with better accuracy than random, with no prior training on the device, and that PDR control is more accurate than mu control for these novices. Individuals with more years of musical training showed a moderate positive correlation with more PDR accuracy, but not mu accuracy. The Encephalophone may have potential applications both as a novel musical instrument without requiring movement, as well as a potential therapeutic biofeedback device for patients suffering from motor deficits (e.g., amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), brainstem stroke, traumatic amputation).

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“…However, Bergstrom et al (2014) showed musical biofeedback to be better than either simple passive music listening or non-musical sonification biofeedback for control of physiological arousal state. Here we report reasonable control with virtually no training, using scalar musical tone feedback rather than non-musical auditory feedback.…”

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The Encephalophone: A Novel Musical Biofeedback Device using Conscious Control of Electroencephalogram (EEG)

Deuel

Pampin

Sundstrom

et al. 2017

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…There is ample research evidence showing that listening to music can have an effect on activity in the limbic system, considered to be the brain's emotional core (Blood and Zatorre, 2001; Koelsch, 2010; Peretz et al, 2013), and might lead to that “spreading gooseflesh, hair-on-end feeling” better known as “chills” (Panksepp, 1995). Used as a biofeedback system, it has been shown that music may modulate physiological arousal (Bergstrom et al, 2014). It is important to acknowledge that emotional responses to music and sound are tied to individuals' personal traits, preferences familiarity, and music-related autobiographic memories (Kreutz et al, 2007; Barrett et al, 2010).…”

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“…Thereby, auditory biofeedback systems commonly map physiological and physical quantities to psychoacoustic (sound) parameters, such as loudness, pitch, timbre, and rhythm (Hermann and Hunt, 2005; Dubus and Bresin, 2013). Studies that explicitly use music as auditory biofeedback however are relatively scarce (Bergstrom et al, 2014; Moens et al, 2014; Van Dyck et al, 2015). …”

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3Mo: A Model for Music-Based Biofeedback

2016

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In the domain of sports and motor rehabilitation, it is of major importance to regulate and control physiological processes and physical motion in most optimal ways. For that purpose, real-time auditory feedback of physiological and physical information based on sound signals, often termed “sonification,” has been proven particularly useful. However, the use of music in biofeedback systems has been much less explored. In the current article, we assert that the use of music, and musical principles, can have a major added value, on top of mere sound signals, to the benefit of psychological and physical optimization of sports and motor rehabilitation tasks. In this article, we present the 3Mo model to describe three main functions of music that contribute to these benefits. These functions relate the power of music to Motivate, and to Monitor and Modify physiological and physical processes. The model brings together concepts and theories related to human sensorimotor interaction with music, and specifies the underlying psychological and physiological principles. This 3Mo model is intended to provide a conceptual framework that guides future research on musical biofeedback systems in the domain of sports and motor rehabilitation.

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“… 4 Utilizing music‐induced analgesia is not new to migraine. Music has been included in biofeedback training 5 and commonly accompanies web‐based or downloaded applications that our more computer savvy patients utilize.…”

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