Music boosts the recovery of attention after mental fatigue in healthy young male subjects: A human auditory event-related potential study

• Published in: Behavioural brain research Vol. 485; p. 115539
• Main Authors: Wang, Zhiding, Xu, Wenhao, Zhang, Cheng, Zhang, Chaoyue, Liu, Yinji, Chen, Pinhong, Han, Gencheng, Wang, Lubin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 08.05.2025
• Subjects: Acoustic Stimulation; Adult; Attention - physiology; Auditory Perception - physiology; Brain - physiology; Brain - physiopathology; CNV; Contingent Negative Variation - physiology; EEG; Electrocardiography; Electroencephalography; Evoked Potentials, Auditory - physiology; Humans; Male; Mental Fatigue; Mental Fatigue - physiopathology; Mental Fatigue - therapy; Music; Music - psychology; Music Therapy - methods; Young Adult; CNV; Mental Fatigue; Music; EEG

Daily life faces continuous cognitive tasks. Several methods could lessen cognitive fatigue including music. To find out how music functions in recovering cognitive fatigue, twenty-seven participants were randomly assigned to the rest group (N = 12) and the music group (N = 15). To evaluate the effe...