The highs and lows of music: dynamic neurophysiological entrainment in live concert experiences

EPSRC：Rory Kirk：EP/R513313/1是什么让音乐成为一种有益的体验？为什么人们最强烈的音乐体验往往是在现场音乐会上？对音乐的心理功能的研究正在迅速增长，这反映了人们对音乐力量的认识不断提高，音乐在健康干预、治疗和商业娱乐和应用中的用途越来越多。尽管研究在增长，但大多数关于音乐的心理体验和功能的知识都是基于简短的音乐摘录的研究。新的技术和设施开始允许研究更长时间，密集的音乐参与和更自然的设置，如现场音乐会的影响。与麦克马斯特音乐与心灵研究所合作，我们计划在他们的大型交互式虚拟环境（LIVE）实验室进行实证研究，这是一个独特的106个座位的剧院，配备了同时收集行为和神经生理测量的技术。我们将测量大脑活动（EEG），生理（心率，皮肤电导）和观众的自我报告，因为他们听现场音乐会。使用先进的分析技术将使我们能够研究这些神经生理学指标如何随着时间的推移而发展，与音乐以及快乐，吸收和情感的主观体验有关。正在测试的假设预测，神经生理学的措施“夹带”（同步）与音乐的方面，这种夹带是更强的音乐的情绪体验。此外，我们推测，神经生理夹带可能是观众之间的传染性和积极的影响，看到表演者。这项研究将有助于我们理解在长期和潜在的强烈的社会情感体验中的认知过程。它对我们理解音乐享受的心理学和使用音乐促进健康和福祉具有影响，通过考虑时间，社会和神经生理学动态而超越刺激反应模型。

EPSRC: Rory Kirk: EP/R513313/1 What makes music a rewarding experience? And why are people's strongest musical experiences most often at live concerts? Research into the psychological functions of music is rapidly growing, reflecting an increased recognition of the power of music, which is paralleled in a growing repertoire of uses of music in health interventions, therapy and commercial entertainment and applications. Despite growth in research, most of what is known about psychological experience and functions of music is based on research with brief musical excerpts. New technologies and facilities are beginning to allow for research into the effects of longer, intensive music engagement and in more naturalistic settings, such as live concerts. With the McMaster Institute of Music & the Mind, we plan to conduct an empirical study at their Large Interactive Virtual Environment (LIVE) Lab, a unique, 106-seat theatre equipped with technology to simultaneously collect behavioural and neurophysiological measures. We will measure brain activity (EEG), physiology (heart rate, skin conductance) and self-reports of audience members as they listen to a live concert. Using advanced analysis techniques will enable us to investigate how these neurophysiological measures develop over time, are linked to the music and to subjective experiences of pleasure, absorption, and emotion. The hypotheses being tested predict that neurophysiological measures 'entrain' (synchronise) with aspects of the music and that such entrainment is stronger in heightened emotional experiences of the music. Furthermore, we speculate that neurophysiological entrainment may be contagious between audience members and positively influenced by seeing the performers. This research will contribute towards our understanding of cognitive processes during prolonged and potentially intense socio-emotional experiences. It has implications for our understanding of the psychology of music enjoyment and uses of music for health and wellbeing, going beyond models of stimulus-response by taking into account temporal, social and neurophysiological dynamics.