ArticleScientific reports2025
Music tempo modulates emotional states as revealed through EEG insights.
Article in Scientific reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07544602 (Music Therapy for Comatose Brain Injured Patients), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Music Therapy for Comatose Brain Injured Patients
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Psychological effects of music listening habits on emotional wellbeing and cognitive performance in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Comparable Physiological Stress Responses following Music Listening and Quiet Reading: An exploratory pilot study.International journal of stress management · 2026Article
- Mind Melodies: An NLP platform to examine music cognition.Behavior research methods · 2026Article
- Toward precision music medicine in oncology care: reproducible, scalable and biomarker-driven interventions.EClinicalMedicine · 2026Review
- A Music Interaction System Based on the Emotional Recognition of Older Adults in Smart Homes: Cross-Sectional Experimental Study.JMIR aging · 2026Article
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- Theta-band EEG functional connectivity during emotional music in disorders of consciousness: wPLI differences between MCS and UWS.Frontiers in neurologyArticle
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Abstract
Music can effectively influence human emotions, with different melodies and rhythms eliciting varying emotional responses. Among these, tempo is one of the most important parameters affecting emotions. This study explores the impact of music tempo on emotional states and the associated brain functional networks. A total of 26 participants without any history of neurological or psychiatric disorders and music training took part in the experiment, using classical piano music clips at different tempi (56, 106, 156 bpm) as stimuli. The study was conducted using emotional scales and electroencephalogram (EEG) analysis. The results showed that the valence level of emotions significantly increased with music tempo, while the arousal level exhibited a "V" shape relationship. EEG analysis revealed significant changes in brainwave signals across different frequency bands under different tempi. For instance, slow tempo induced higher Theta and Alpha power in the frontal region, while fast tempo increased Beta and Gamma band power. Moreover, fast tempo enhanced the average connectivity strength in the frontal, temporal, and occipital regions, and increased phase synchrony value (PLV) between the frontal and parietal regions. However, slow tempo improves PLV between the occipital and parietal regions. The findings of this study elucidate the effects of music tempo on the brain functional networks related to emotion regulation, providing a theoretical basis for music-assisted diagnosis and treatment of mood disorders. Furthermore, these results suggest potential applications in emotion robotics, emotion-based human-computer interaction, and emotion-based intelligent control.
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