Alterations in brainwaves caused by different Music Genres

Abstract

In recent years, many studies have shown that music affects brainwaves. However, music also has the power to stimulate strong emotions. If music is classified by emotion, will the music of different emotions have different effects on brain wavesƒ The focus of this study was to observe brainwaves as subjects listen to different emotional types of music to verify whether the music of different emotional categories has different effects on brain waves. We classify music by the circumplex model of emotion and select four pieces of music from the different subdivision in that model as our experimental music. Study adopt MindWave Mobile as the primary sensing component, which is a sensor for detecting brainwave and output the electroencephalogram (EEG). The collected brainwave data was tested and processed by the experimental module of this study and use T-Test to evaluate the effects of music on brainwaves. In the experimental results, we found that the arousal score of music in the circumplex model of emotion does have the positive relationship with the alpha wave, and for other brainwaves do not have adequate evidence to prove their connection.