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Chee ZJ, Chang CYM, Cheong JY, Malek FHBA, Hussain S, de Vries M, Bellato A. The effects of music and auditory stimulation on autonomic arousal, cognition and attention: A systematic review. Int J Psychophysiol 2024; 199:112328. [PMID: 38458383 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2023] [Revised: 03/01/2024] [Accepted: 03/04/2024] [Indexed: 03/10/2024]
Abstract
According to the arousal-mood hypothesis, changes in arousal and mood when exposed to auditory stimulation underlie the detrimental effects or improvements in cognitive performance. Findings supporting or against this hypothesis are, however, often based on subjective ratings of arousal rather than autonomic/physiological indices of arousal. To assess the arousal-mood hypothesis, we carried out a systematic review of the literature on 31 studies investigating cardiac, electrodermal, and pupillometry measures when exposed to different types of auditory stimulation (music, ambient noise, white noise, and binaural beats) in relation to cognitive performance. Our review suggests that the effects of music, noise, or binaural beats on cardiac, electrodermal, and pupillometry measures in relation to cognitive performance are either mixed or insufficient to draw conclusions. Importantly, the evidence for or against the arousal-mood hypothesis is at best indirect because autonomic arousal and cognitive performance are often considered separately. Future research is needed to directly evaluate the effects of auditory stimulation on autonomic arousal and cognitive performance holistically.
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- Zhong Jian Chee
- School of Psychology, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Semenyih 43500, Malaysia; School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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- School of Psychology, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Semenyih 43500, Malaysia; Mind and Neurodevelopment (MiND) Interdisciplinary Cluster, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Semenyih 43500, Malaysia
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- School of Psychology, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Semenyih 43500, Malaysia
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- School of Psychology, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Semenyih 43500, Malaysia
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- School of Psychology, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Semenyih 43500, Malaysia; Mind and Neurodevelopment (MiND) Interdisciplinary Cluster, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Semenyih 43500, Malaysia; Development and Education of Youth in Diverse Societies (DEEDS), Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
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- School of Psychology, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Semenyih 43500, Malaysia; Mind and Neurodevelopment (MiND) Interdisciplinary Cluster, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Semenyih 43500, Malaysia; School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom; Centre for Innovation in Mental Health, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom; Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, United Kingdom.
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Fougère M, Greco-Vuilloud J, Arnous C, Abel F, Lowe C, Elie V, Marchand S. Sensory stimulations potentializing digital therapeutics pain control. FRONTIERS IN PAIN RESEARCH 2023; 4:1168377. [PMID: 37745799 PMCID: PMC10511651 DOI: 10.3389/fpain.2023.1168377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2023] [Accepted: 08/14/2023] [Indexed: 09/26/2023] Open
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For the past two decades, using Digital Therapeutics (DTx) to counter painful symptoms has emerged as a novel pain relief strategy. Several studies report that DTx significantly diminish pain while compensating for the limitations of pharmacological analgesics (e.g., addiction, side effects). Virtual reality (VR) is a major component of the most effective DTx for pain reduction. Notably, various stimuli (e.g., auditory, visual) appear to be frequently associated with VR in DTx. This review aims to compare the hypoalgesic power of specific stimuli with or without a VR environment. First, this review will briefly describe VR technology and known elements related to its hypoalgesic effect. Second, it will non-exhaustively list various stimuli known to have a hypoalgesic effect on pain independent of the immersive environment. Finally, this review will focus on studies that investigate a possible potentialized effect on pain reduction of these stimuli in a VR environment.
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- Lucine, Bordeaux, France
- Faculté de Médecine et des Sciences de la Santé, Centre de Recherche Clinique du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
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Effect of Target Semantic Consistency in Different Sequence Positions and Processing Modes on T2 Recognition: Integration and Suppression Based on Cross-Modal Processing. Brain Sci 2023; 13:brainsci13020340. [PMID: 36831882 PMCID: PMC9954507 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci13020340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2022] [Revised: 02/09/2023] [Accepted: 02/14/2023] [Indexed: 02/19/2023] Open
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In the rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) paradigm, sound affects participants' recognition of targets. Although many studies have shown that sound improves cross-modal processing, researchers have not yet explored the effects of sound semantic information with respect to different locations and processing modalities after removing sound saliency. In this study, the RSVP paradigm was used to investigate the difference between attention under conditions of consistent and inconsistent semantics with the target (Experiment 1), as well as the difference between top-down (Experiment 2) and bottom-up processing (Experiment 3) for sounds with consistent semantics with target 2 (T2) at different sequence locations after removing sound saliency. The results showed that cross-modal processing significantly improved attentional blink (AB). The early or lagged appearance of sounds consistent with T2 did not affect participants' judgments in the exogenous attentional modality. However, visual target judgments were improved with endogenous attention. The sequential location of sounds consistent with T2 influenced the judgment of auditory and visual congruency. The results illustrate the effects of sound semantic information in different locations and processing modalities.
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Stimulation with acoustic white noise enhances motor excitability and sensorimotor integration. Sci Rep 2022; 12:13108. [PMID: 35907889 PMCID: PMC9338990 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-17055-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2022] [Accepted: 07/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Auditory white noise (WN) is widely used in neuroscience to mask unwanted environmental noise and cues, e.g. TMS clicks. However, to date there is no research on the influence of WN on corticospinal excitability and potentially associated sensorimotor integration itself. Here we tested the hypothesis, if WN induces M1 excitability changes and improves sensorimotor performance. M1 excitability (spTMS, SICI, ICF, I/O curve) and sensorimotor reaction-time performance were quantified before, during and after WN stimulation in a set of experiments performed in a cohort of 61 healthy subjects. WN enhanced M1 corticospinal excitability, not just during exposure, but also during silence periods intermingled with WN, and up to several minutes after the end of exposure. Two independent behavioural experiments highlighted that WN improved multimodal sensorimotor performance. The enduring excitability modulation combined with the effects on behaviour suggest that WN might induce neural plasticity. WN is thus a relevant modulator of corticospinal function; its neurobiological effects should not be neglected and could in fact be exploited in research applications.
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Romero-Rivas C, Costa A. On the flexibility of the sound-to-meaning mapping when listening to native and foreign-accented speech. Cortex 2022; 149:1-15. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2022.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2021] [Revised: 10/11/2021] [Accepted: 01/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Angwin AJ, Wilson WJ, Ripollés P, Rodriguez-Fornells A, Arnott WL, Barry RJ, Cheng BBY, Garden K, Copland DA. White noise facilitates new-word learning from context. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 2019; 199:104699. [PMID: 31569040 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2019.104699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2018] [Revised: 07/31/2019] [Accepted: 09/22/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Listening to white noise may facilitate cognitive performance, including new word learning, for some individuals. This study investigated whether auditory white noise facilitates the learning of novel written words from context in healthy young adults. Sixty-nine participants were required to determine the meaning of novel words placed within sentence contexts during a silent reading task. Learning was performed either with or without white noise, and recognition of novel word meanings was tested immediately after learning and after a short delay. Immediate recognition accuracy for learned novel word meanings was higher in the noise group relative to the no noise group, however this effect was no longer evident at the delayed recognition test. These findings suggest that white noise has the capacity to facilitate meaning acquisition from context, however further research is needed to clarify its capacity to improve longer-term retention of meaning.
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- Anthony J Angwin
- University of Queensland, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Brisbane, Australia.
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- University of Queensland, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Brisbane, Australia.
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- Department of Psychology, New York University, New York 10003, USA
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group [Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute] IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, ICREA, Barcelona, Spain.
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- University of Queensland, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Brisbane, Australia; Hear and Say, Brisbane, Australia.
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- University of Wollongong, School of Psychology and Brain & Behaviour Research Institute, Wollongong, Australia.
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- University of Queensland, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Brisbane, Australia.
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- University of Queensland, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Brisbane, Australia.
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- University of Queensland, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Brisbane, Australia; University of Queensland, UQ Centre for Clinical Research, Brisbane, Australia.
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Pickens TA, Khan SP, Berlau DJ. White noise as a possible therapeutic option for children with ADHD. Complement Ther Med 2018; 42:151-155. [PMID: 30670235 DOI: 10.1016/j.ctim.2018.11.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2018] [Revised: 11/08/2018] [Accepted: 11/08/2018] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
Abstract
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a condition that affects many children and adults throughout the world. ADHD symptoms have been associated with changes in catecholamine release. Current therapies for ADHD have a variety of limitations that invite additional therapeutic options. White noise therapy has previously been utilized to improve sleep and aspects of cognition in a variety of patient populations. Through a proposed phenomenon called stochastic resonance, white noise may have the ability to improve symptoms in children with ADHD. Empirically, white noise therapy has been able to improve certain tasks affected by ADHD symptoms, including speech recognition and reading and writing speed. Not all tasks affected by ADHD are improved, however, and significant logistical challenges remain before this therapy could be realistically implemented. In this review, there appears to be evidence that white noise therapy could be beneficial for patients with ADHD, and therefore further research is encouraged to establish parameters for maximum therapeutic benefit.
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- Thomas A Pickens
- Regis University School of Pharmacy, 3333 Regis Blvd H-28, Denver, CO, 80221, United States
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- Regis University School of Pharmacy, 3333 Regis Blvd H-28, Denver, CO, 80221, United States
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- Regis University School of Pharmacy, 3333 Regis Blvd H-28, Denver, CO, 80221, United States.
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