Directed Motor-Auditory EEG Connectivity Is Modulated by Music Tempo.

ABSTRACT: Beat perception is fundamental to how we experience music, and yet the mechanism behind this spontaneous building of the internal beat representation is largely unknown. Existing findings support links between the tempo (speed) of the beat and enhancement of electroencephalogram (EEG) activity at tempo-related frequencies, but there are no studies looking at how tempo may affect the underlying long-range interactions between EEG activity at different electrodes. The present study investigates these long-range interactions using EEG activity recorded from 21 volunteers listening to music stimuli played at 4 different tempi (50, 100, 150 and 200 beats per minute). The music stimuli consisted of piano excerpts designed to convey the emotion of "peacefulness". Noise stimuli with an identical a

SUBMITTER: Nicolaou N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5651276 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature