Experience Affects EEG Event-Related Synchronization in Dancers and Non-dancers While Listening to Preferred Music

Frontiers in Psychology

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Hiroko Nakano¹  Mari-Anne M. Rosario²  Constanza de Dios³ 

[1] Department of Psychology, Saint Mary's College of California, United States;Department of Physics and Astronomy, Saint Mary's College of California, United States;Center for Neurobehavioral Research on Addiction, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center, United States

关键词: music;    expert;    dance;    EEG;    alpha;    beta;    gamma;    time frequency analysis (TFA);   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.611355

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

EEGs were analyzed to investigate the effect of experiences in listening to preferred music in dancers and non-dancers. Participants passively listened to instrumental music of their preferred genre for 2 min (Argentine tango for dancers, classical, or jazz for non-dancers), alternate genres, and silence. Both groups showed increased activity for their preferred music compared to non-preferred music in the gamma, beta, and alpha frequency bands. The results suggest all participants' conscious recognition of and affective responses to their familiar music (gamma), appreciation of the tempo embedded in their preferred music and emotional arousal (beta), and enhanced attention mechanism for cognitive operations such as memory retrieval (alpha). The observed alpha activity is considered in the framework of the alpha functional inhibition hypothesis, in that years of experience listening to their favorite type of music may have honed the cerebral responses to achieve efficient cortical processes. Analyses of the electroencephalogram (EEG) activity over 100s-long music pieces revealed a difference between dancers and non-dancers in the magnitude of an initial alpha event-related desynchronization (ERD) and the later development of an alpha event-related synchronization (ERS) for their preferred music. Dancers exhibited augmented alpha ERD, as well as augmented and uninterrupted alpha ERS over the remaining 80s. This augmentation in dancers is hypothesized to be derived from creative cognition or motor imagery operations developed through their dance experiences.

【 授权许可】

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