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Exploring the Effects of Musical Features on Autonomic Modulation: a Preliminary Study

Year: 2024

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Although it is known that music can modulate emotions affecting the autonomic nervous system (ANS) responses, hypotheses on the time-varying influence of specific musical features on nonlinear ANS modulation are still unclear. In this study, we used cardiovascular data from the Continuously Annotated Signal of Emotion dataset. Specifically, we considered one of the stimuli (a relaxing piano piece), extracted the loudness and the envelope of the fundamental frequency (F0 envelope), and analysed the ANS dynamics of the 30 participants. The Convergent Cross Mapping approach was employed to infer the causal relationship between the music features and the time-varying frequency parameters of heart rate variability. Our approach evidenced differential statistical results related to F0envelope and loudness. This suggests that music features can play different roles in driving ANS responses and that the present approach allows to quantify the strength of this causal coupling.

Source: Conference of the European Study Group on Cardiovascular Oscillations (ESGCO)

DOI: 10.1109/esgco63003.2024.10767068

Authors: Laura Lavezzo, Andrea Gargano, Didier Grandjean, Enzo Pasquale Scilingo, Manuela Filippa, Mimma Nardelli

Institutions: University of Pisa, University of Geneva

Language: English

Topic: Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control

Subfield: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: Ministry of Education