Does brain react on Indian music? - A functional magnetic resonance imaging study

Author

Satheeshkumar, J. ; Arumugaperumal, S. ; Rajesh, R. ; Kesavadas, C.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Bharathiar Univ., Coimbatore

fYear

2008

fDate

1-8 June 2008

Firstpage

2696

Lastpage

2702

Abstract

Listening to music, as per clinical neuro science, involves many cognitive components with distinct brain substrates and its study has advanced greatly in the last three decades. But the studies of Indian music and its influence in the brain have not yet been studied. This article presents sequence of image processing steps using statistical parametric mapping for the analysis of fMRI brain structures for studying the influence of two Indian ragas namely Sankarabnam and Madhyamavathi on a non-musician brain. The results shows that ragas have a very good influence on non-musician and also shows that raga named Madhyamavathi has influenced the subject more than Sankarabranam.

Keywords

biomedical MRI; brain; cognition; image sequences; medical image processing; music; neurophysiology; statistical analysis; Indian music; clinical neuro science; fMRI brain structure; functional magnetic resonance imaging study; image processing; image sequence; statistical parametric mapping analysis; Brain; Data analysis; Image analysis; Image processing; Magnetic materials; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neuroimaging; Positron emission tomography; Probability; Statistical analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Neural Networks, 2008. IJCNN 2008. (IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence). IEEE International Joint Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

ISSN

1098-7576

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1820-6

Electronic_ISBN

1098-7576

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IJCNN.2008.4634176

Filename

4634176