The neural underpinnings of music listening under different attention conditions.

摘要: Most studies examining the neural underpinnings of music listening have no specific instruction on how to process presented musical pieces. In this study, we explicitly manipulated participants' focus attention while they listened We used an ecologically valid experimental setting by presenting stimuli simultaneously with naturalistic film sequences. one condition, participants were instructed their piece (attentive listening), whereas in second directed sequence (passive listening). two instrumental pieces: electronic pop song, which was a major hit at time testing, and classical piece. During presentation, measured electroencephalographic oscillations responses from autonomic nervous system (heart rate high-frequency heart variability). passive found strong event-related synchronizations all analyzed frequency bands (theta, lower alpha, upper beta, beta). The neurophysiological during attentive song similar those both conditions. Thus, had influence but not are interpreted as psychological state typically observed when 'drawn into music'.