Event-related skin conductance responses to musical emotions in humans

Khalfa, S.; Peretz, Isabelle; Blondin, Jean‐Pierre; Robert, Manon

doi:10.1016/s0304-3940(02)00462-7

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“…This finding supports Farmer's statement (1929) that one of maqam melodies, such as Rastmaqamcan evoke the joyful emotion. Khalfa et al (2002) assumed that mainly, musical emotional arousal can invoke and modulate skin conductance response. Chen, Tsai, Huang, and Lin (2013) compared pleasant and unpleasant music on the patients with one-sided impairment after stroke and concluded that pleasant music can improve positive mood and arousal.…”

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“…Music is indeed able to be an effective stimulus eliciting strong emotional reactions such as thrills and tears (Goldstein, 1980). In this way, music is a unique direction that evokes emotions in the auditory domain (Khalfa, Isabelle, Jean-Pierre, & Manon, 2002). The effect of listening to music on psychophysiological response has been abundantly researched and discussed.…”

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“…The effect of listening to music on psychophysiological response has been abundantly researched and discussed. Physiologically, this measurement cannot be separated from autonomic response which can offer reliable indices of emotional reactions (Khalfa et al, 2002). Many physiological variables such as skin conductance, heart rate, facial EMG, and brain activity are related to the emotional dimension (Gomez &Danuser, 2004).…”

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Listening to the Quran Recitations: 'Does It Affect Psychophysiological Measures of Emotion?'

Zaidah¹,

Imaduddin²

2018

Proceedings of the 3rd ASEAN Conference on Psychology, Counselling, and Humanities (ACPCH 2017)

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Abstract. This study was designed to examine the effect of listening to the Quran recitations based on different melodies on the psychophysiological measurements of emotion. The skin conductance and heart rate were measured as the physiological response; meanwhile, the mood and emotion scale were analysed as participant's psychological assessment.The experiment was conducted with 22 Indonesian postgraduate students studying from various programs who are Muslims. An individual experiment was carried out in the listening laboratory of the Music Department, The University of York. Four different recitations were delivered. Shimmer GSR unit was used to measure the skin conductance and heart rate. Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), Geneva Emotional Music Scale (GEMS), and some demographic questionnaire were also used.Findings show that three kinds of recitations had no significant impact on the skin conductance (recitation without melody, Hicazmaqam, and KurdiMaqam); however, the third recital (Rastmaqam) had a significant effect on the skin conductance (p< 0.05). There was no significant effect of all recitations on heart rate. The mood response mean, both before and after listening to all stimuli, also demonstrated no significant difference. However, there were significant differences on emotional assessment both before and after listening to each stimulus, and a significant difference on some emotion categories of the effect of listening to Quran recitations based on the different melody. The recitation without melody influenced a lower level of wonder, transcendence, power, tenderness, nostalgia, and peacefulness emotion categories, though it increased tension. The Hicazmaqam (second stimulus) had a significant effect on the transcendence emotion, but still affect a higher tension level. The Rastmaqam (third stimulus) influenced the peacefulness emotion significantly, and impact a lower level of tension. The Kurdimaqam (fourth stimulus) had no significant difference on the effect on all nine categories of emotion. The Rast maqam showed the most powerful outcome in this study. We recommend Rast maqam can be applied on Quran recitation therapy for tension treatments.

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Listening to the Quran Recitations: 'Does It Affect Psychophysiological Measures of Emotion?'

Zaidah¹,

Imaduddin²

2018

Proceedings of the 3rd ASEAN Conference on Psychology, Counselling, and Humanities (ACPCH 2017)

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“…Optimal enjoyment, albeit considered important, was given less priority. We decided to convey the physiological state of participants by controlling musical tempo and volume, since past studies have shown that these parameters are capable of modulating changes in arousal (Khalfa et al, 2002;Zatorre, 2005;Hunter and Schellenberg, 2010;Trappe, 2010).…”

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“…One clearly established universal effect is the direct correlation between the level of arousal as represented through the tempo and volume of the music, and the level of arousal experienced by its listeners (Hunter and Schellenberg, 2010;Khalfa et al, 2002;Trappe, 2010;Zatorre, 2005). Besides the level of induced arousal, music universally also has the effect of entrainment on humans: the subconscious synchronization of various bio-rhythms to rhythms in the music.…”

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Using music as a signal for biofeedback

Bergström

Seinfeld

Arroyo-Palacios

et al. 2014

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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Studies on the potential benefits of conveying biofeedback stimulus using a musical signal have appeared in recent years with the intent of harnessing the strong effects that music listening may have on subjects. While results are encouraging, the fundamental question has yet to be addressed, of how combined music and biofeedback compares to the already established use of either of these elements separately. This experiment, involving young adults (N = 24), compared the effectiveness at modulating participants' states of physiological arousal of each of the following conditions: A) listening to pre-recorded music, B) sonification biofeedback of the heart rate, and C) an algorithmically modulated musical feedback signal conveying the subject's heart rate. Our hypothesis was that each of the conditions (A), (B) and (C) would differ from the other two in the extent to which it enables participants to increase and decrease their state of physiological arousal, with (C) being more effective than (B), and both more than (A). Several physiological measures and qualitative responses were recorded and analyzed. Results show that using musical biofeedback allowed participants to modulate their state of physiological arousal at least equally well as sonification biofeedback, and much better than just listening to music, as reflected in their heart rate measurements, controlling for respiration-rate. Our findings indicate that the known effects of music in modulating arousal can therefore be beneficially harnessed when designing a biofeedback protocol.

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