EFFECT OF INDIAN MUSIC ON CARDIAC AUTONOMIC FUNCTION PSYCHOLOGICAL STATES AND COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS IN HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS

Abstract

Many researches have shown that music evoked significant autonomic responses as newlinemeasured by HRV analysis. Studies have also demonstrated cognitive-enhancing effects of newlineexposure to anxiety-reducing or sedative music. These studies have used western music newlinesuch as Mozart, Vivaldi and Bach etc. Not much study has been undertaken using Indian newlinemusic. The consolidation and evocation of Rasa or positive aesthetic mood is the function newlineof Indian music. Indian Music therapy is the use of suitable type of music, with specific newlinetonal quality, played at suitable time, which helps to drive out negative feelings like newlinedependency and loneliness. We set out to examine the effect of listening to particular newlineIndian Rand#257;ga or melody across cognitive, autonomic, state anxiety domain of the human newlinestress response in healthy participants in a laboratory setting.We chose to evaluate the effects of HRV, State Anxiety and Subjective feeling newlineassessment on exposure to Indian Rand#257;ga Bhüpäli with that of two control groups of newlinepop music and no music or silence in a sample of healthy participantsTo study the impact of Indian Rand#257;ga on a memory task.All the studies the sources of subjects were from Residential Yoga University age range newlinefrom 18 to 24.The immediate effect of music through self-control case series in which the inference is newlinewithin individuals. The fixed covariates such as location, diet, state of health are newlineautomatically controlled for within a proportional incidence framework. newline