Title :
A Study of the Relationship between Two Musical Rhythm Characteristics and Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
Author :
Shih-Hsiang Lin ; Yu-Chieh Huang ; Ching-Yen Chien ; Lei-Chun Chou ; Sheng-Chieh Huang ; Ming-Yie Jan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Control Eng., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu
Abstract :
Heart rate variability (HRV) is a measure of variations in the heart rate. Over the last 25 years, HRV analysis has became more and more popular as a non-invasive research and clinical tool for indirectly investigating both cardiac and autonomic nervous system (ANS) function in both health and disease area. How the musical rhythmic characteristics, tempo and complexity, affect the performance of HRV is studied in this work. By understanding the relationship between music and the function of ANS, we can improve our life and health by music - non-invasively and simply.
Keywords :
electrocardiography; medical signal processing; music; neurophysiology; autonomic nervous system; heart rate variability; musical rhythm characteristics; Algorithm design and analysis; Autonomic nervous system; Electrocardiography; Frequency domain analysis; Hafnium; Heart rate; Heart rate variability; Rhythm; Signal analysis; Signal processing algorithms; ANS; Autonomic Nervous System; HRV; Heart Rate Variability; Music; Rhythm;
Conference_Titel :
BioMedical Engineering and Informatics, 2008. BMEI 2008. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sanya
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3118-2
DOI :
10.1109/BMEI.2008.305
