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Involuntary Attention Enhancement by Melody: Neurophysiological Evidence

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Cognitive behaviors are supported by unconscious attention and subsequent conscious attention accompanied with motor readiness. To investigate whether melodic speech would be effective for attracting the unconscious attention, we performed delayed response tasks with melodic/monotonous warning stimuli. We found that melodic stimuli are effective for generating mismatch negativity (MMN) as an unconscious early attention marker and subsequent contingent negative variation (CNV) even under attention-distracting conditions. The findings will be neurophysiological evidence for music therapy.

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  1. Kobe University Graduate School of Health Sciences, Tomogaoka 7-10-2, Suma-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 654-0142, Japan

    Ariko Araki & Toshio Kawamata

  2. Center for Information and Neural Networks, National Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Yamadaoka 4-1, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan

    Yoshitada Katagiri

  3. Tekiju Rehabilitation hospital, Hanayama-cho 2-11-32, Nagata-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 653-087, Japan

    Ariko Araki

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  1. Aizu Research Cluster for Medical Engineering and Informatics Research Center for Advanced Information Science and Technology, The University of Aizu, 965-8580, Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan

    Tuan D. Pham

  2. Department of Cancer Biology, Division of Mathematical Oncology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, 108-8639, Tokyo, Japan

    Kazuhisha Ichikawa

  3. Chaos Technology Research Lab, 5-26-5 Seta, 520-2134, Otsu-shi, Oyama-Higa, Japan

    Mayumi Oyama-Higa

  4. Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, The Free University of Brussels, 103, 1090, Laarbeeklaan, Brussels, Belgium

    Danny Coomans

  5. Department of Computer Science, University of Muenster, Einsteinstrasse 62, 48149, Muenster, Germany

    Xiaoyi Jiang

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Araki, A., Katagiri, Y., Kawamata, T. (2014). Involuntary Attention Enhancement by Melody: Neurophysiological Evidence. In: Pham, T.D., Ichikawa, K., Oyama-Higa, M., Coomans, D., Jiang, X. (eds) Biomedical Informatics and Technology. ACBIT 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 404. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54121-6_23

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