ArticleCommunications biology2024
Rapid modulation in music supports attention in listeners with attentional difficulties.
Article in Communications biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- The efficacy of music therapy in alleviating anxiety among college students: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
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- Assessing the role of magician patter on deception in the Three-Card Monte.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- A scoping review of music-based digital therapeutics for stress, anxiety, and depression.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Review
- A narrative review on the psychological mechanisms and efficacy of music interventions for improving symptoms of patients with ADHD.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- Functional Connectivity of Auditory, Motor, and Reward Networks at Rest and During Music Listening.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Diary Analysis of an RCT: Natural Language Analyses of Gamma-Music-Based Intervention.Music and medicine · 2025Article
- Listening habits and subjective effects of background music in young adults with and without ADHD.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Neural Entrainment to Musical Pulse in Naturalistic Music Is Preserved in Aging: Implications for Music-Based Interventions.Brain sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
Background music is widely used to sustain attention, but little is known about what musical properties aid attention. This may be due to inter-individual variability in neural responses to music. Here we find that music with amplitude modulations added at specific rates can sustain attention differentially for those with varying levels of attentional difficulty. We first tested the hypothesis that music with strong amplitude modulation would improve sustained attention, and found it did so when it occurred early in the experiment. Rapid modulations in music elicited greater activity in attentional networks in fMRI, as well as greater stimulus-brain coupling in EEG. Finally, to test the idea that specific modulation properties would differentially affect listeners based on their level of attentional difficulty, we parametrically manipulated the depth and rate of amplitude modulations inserted in otherwise-identical music, and found that beta-range modulations helped more than other modulation ranges for participants with more ADHD symptoms. Results suggest the possibility of an oscillation-based neural mechanism for targeted music to support improved cognitive performance.
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