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

ABSTRACT: 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

SUBMITTER: Nakano H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8071982 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature