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In order to determine objective components of the subjects, who is listening to music, emotional state, changes in skin conductance while exposure to musical stimuli was measured. The changes in skin conductance, demonstrating the activity of the autonomic nervous system, were treated here as a marker of affective response to presented musical stimuli. Reactions to different musical stimuli differ both in terms of the number of peaks, mean amplitude and the decay of reaction. “Mute” stimulus, in which the dynamics of musical stimulus is being gradually decreased, elicits in the subjects the strongest response, characterized both by the greatest number of peaks and the highest average amplitude of responses. The weakest psychogalvanic response, with the lowest number of peaks and the average amplitude of response, is evoked by a “slowing down” stimulus, in which the pace of musical stimuli is gradually decreasing. The stimulus combining the features of “mute” and “slowing down” incentives, in which both the dynamics and the pace are gradually decreasing, causes a very weak, galvanic skin response in comparison to other stimuli, both in terms of the number of peaks and the average amplitude of responses. It is possible that a gradual decrease in tempo, with (or without) a gradual mute, acts soothing to the subjects and causes a reduction in the sympathetic nervous system activity.
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Gorzelanczyk, E., Podlipniak, P., Walecki, P. (2013). Measurement of Changes in Skin Conductance Evoked by Musical Stimuli. In: Dekhtyar, Y., Katashev, A., Lancere, L. (eds) International Symposium on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics, 10-12 October, 2012, Riga, Latvia. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 38. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34197-7_15
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