Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Neural Networks, 2008. IJCNN 2008. (IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence). IEEE International Joint Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1820-6
Electronic_ISBN :
1098-7576
DOI :
10.1109/IJCNN.2008.4634176
