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Effect of Music Tempo on Long-Distance Driving: Which Tempo Is the Most Effective at Reducing Fatigue?
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- Psychological Empowerment on the Streets: Designing and Validating Multisensory Experiences in Simulated Autonomous Driving.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- The impact of instrumental music on dual-task interference in a simulated driving environment.Psychological research · 2026Article
- The Effects of Traditional Chinese Music and Western Classical Music on Mental Fatigue Induced by Cognitive Tasks.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Effects of constant and incremental modes of music volume and odor concentration on vigilance.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The effects of music combined to paired associative stimulation on motor-evoked potentials and alertness in spinal cord injury patients and healthy subjects.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Scented Solutions: Examining the Efficacy of Scent Interventions in Mitigating Driving Fatigue.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The Impacts of Background Music on the Effects of Loving-Kindness Meditation on Positive Emotions.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Exploring the influence of music on cognitive performance in female assembly line workers at a medical device manufacturing unit.PloS one · 2024Article
- The difference of affect improvement effect of music intervention in aerobic exercise at different time periods.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Article
- A scoping review of olfactory interventions for fatigue relief: addressing occupational health hazards.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- The influence of musical parameters and subjective musical ratings on perceptions of culture.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Study on the Effect of Judgment Excitation Mode to Relieve Driving Fatigue Based on MF-DFA.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Spatial Connectivity and Temporal Dynamic Functional Network Connectivity of Musical Emotions Evoked by Dynamically Changing Tempo.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Effect of Music Tempo on Long-Distance Driving: Which Tempo Is the Most Effective at Reducing Fatigue?i-PerceptionArticle
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Abstract
This study investigated how music tempo impacted drivers' fatigue and quality of attention in a long-distance monotonous highway environment. Sixteen drivers were enrolled in four sessions of real-road driving tests under the following four music conditions: no music, slow tempo, medium tempo and fast tempo. Specifically, the drivers' electroencephalogram parameters and eye movement parameters were recorded to measure their extent of fatigue and quality of attention, respectively. Of the three tempos, medium-tempo music is the best choice to reduce fatigue and maintain attention for a long-distance driving. Slow-tempo music can temporarily boost the quality of attention, but after a long period of driving, it significantly deteriorates the driver's levels of fatigue and attention. Fast-tempo music helps relieve driver fatigue but significantly deteriorates drivers' attention after an extended driving time. This study offered practical references for drivers regarding the use of music to avoid fatigue, maintain attention and improve their driving safety. Based on previous theories of music and driving, we have explored the underlying mechanism of how music tempo maintains the alertness of drivers.
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