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Valeriia Demareva

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arXiv2023

Neural Mechanisms of Temporal and Rhythmic Structure Processing in Non-Musicians

Music is increasingly being used as a therapeutic tool in the field of rehabilitation medicine and psychophysiology. One of the main key components of music is its temporal organization. The characteristics of neurocognitive processes during music perception of meter in different tempo variations technique have been studied by using the event-related potentials technique. The study involved 20 volunteers (6 men, the median age of the participants was 23 years). The participants were asked to listen to 4 experimental series that differed in tempo (fast vs. slow) and meter (duple vs. triple). Each series consisted of 625 audio stimuli, 85% of which were organized with a standard metric structure (standard stimulus) while 15% included unexpected accents (deviant stimulus). The results revealed that the type of metric structure influences the detection of the change in stimuli. The analysis showed that the N200 wave occurred significantly faster for stimuli with duple meter and fast tempo and was the slowest for stimuli with triple meter and fast pace.

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arXiv2023

Does Double Biofeedback Affect Functional Hemispheric Asymmetry and Activity? A Pilot Study

In the current pilot study, we attempt to find out how double neurofeedback influences functional hemispheric asymmetry and activity. We examined 30 healthy participants (8 males; 22 females, mean age = 29; SD = 8). To measure functional hemispheric asymmetry and activity, we used computer laterometry in the "two-source" lead-lag dichotic paradigm. Double biofeedback included 8 min of EEG oscillation recording with five minutes of basic mode. During the basic mode, the current amplitude of the EEG oscillator gets transformed into feedback sounds while the current amplitude of alpha EEG oscillator is used to modulate the intensity of light signals. Double neurofeedback did not directly influence the asymmetry itself but accelerated individual sound perception characteristics during dichotic listening in the preceding effect paradigm. Further research is needed to investigate the effect of double neurofeedback training on functional brain activity and asymmetry, taking into account participants' age, gender, and motivation.

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arXiv2023

Temporal dynamics of subjective sleepiness: A convergence analysis of two scales

While sleepiness assessment metrics were initially developed in medical research to study the effects of drugs on sleep, subjective sleepiness assessment is now widely used in both fundamental and applied studies. The Stanford Sleepiness Scale (SSS) and the Karolinska Sleepiness Scale (KSS) are often considered the gold standard in sleepiness research. However, only a few studies have applied both scales, and their convergence and specific features have not been sufficiently investigated. The present study aims to analyse the dynamics and convergence of subjective sleepiness as measured by the KSS and SSS in a population of adults. To achieve this, we present the Subjective Sleepiness Dynamics Dataset (SSDD), which collects evening and morning data on situational subjective sleepiness. A total of 208 adults participated in the experiment. Our findings suggest that sleepiness generally increased from the evening till night and was highest early in the morning. The SSS score appeared to be more sensitive to certain factors, such as the presence of a sleep disorder. The SSS and KSS scores strongly correlated with each other and converged on sleepiness assessment. However, the KSS showed a more even distribution of scores than the SSS. Currently, we are continuously expanding the SSDD.

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