Rapid modulation in music supports attention in listeners with attentional difficulties.

ABSTRACT: Background music is widely used to sustain attention, but little is known about what musical properties aid attention. This may be due to inter-individual variability in neural responses to music. Here we find that music with amplitude modulations added at specific rates can sustain attention differentially for those with varying levels of attentional difficulty. We first tested the hypothesis that music with strong amplitude modulation would improve sustained attention, and found it did so when it occurred early in the experiment. Rapid modulations in music elicited greater activity in attentional networks in fMRI, as well as greater stimulus-brain coupling in EEG. Finally, to test the idea that specific modulation properties would differentially affect listeners based on their level of a

SUBMITTER: Woods KJP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11499863 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature