Background music and stimulating music with amplitude modulation may improve sustained attention for adults with ADHD symptoms, suggests two new studies.
Background music and stimulating music with amplitude modulation may improve sustained attention for adults with ADHD symptoms, suggests two new studies. Music exerts powerful, and largely positive, forces on the brain regions responsible for decision-making, memory, mood, and comprehension, according to decades of research.
But what types of music work best for individuals with ADHD? Two new studies suggest that stimulating music, and specifically songs with strong, targeted amplitude modulations, promotes attention and improves cognition in adults with ADHD symptoms.found that music with strong, targeted amplitude modulations sustains attention for people with ADHD symptoms by engaging the brain regions responsible for cognitive control.“We were interested to see if music with different acoustic properties would affect people differently depending on their attentional capacity,” the researchers wrote. “If so, people with attentional deficits, such as symptoms of ADHD, may need specifically designed For the study, researchers conducted four experiments that measured participants’ sustained attention while completing tasks and listening to either AM + Music, control music , or pink noise.a functional music app that combines original compositions with audio technology developed through a collaboration with researchers at MIND lab and funded, in part, by theParticipants who received AM + Music as the first music condition significantly outperformed those who received other music conditions first during the initial experiment. The researchers measured the sustained attention of the 83 participants with ADHD using the“People with ADHD benefit from ‘rhythmic entrainment,’ using strong, steady rhythms to imprint structure and consistency,” said Roberto Olivardia, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and Clinical Instructor of Psychology atand EEG to study the brain’s response to the different types of music and task-related activities. These results showed significantly higher activation in multiple brain regions related to executive function during the AM + Music condition than in the other two conditions. Forty participants had their EEGs recorded while they performed the SART task under the same three background music conditions. The EEG measurements revealed greater stimulus brain-coupling during the presence of AM + Music. “These results suggested that amplitude modulation could underlie the difference in performance observed in the first experiment and the differences in functional network activity observed in the second experiment,” the researchers wrote.Amplitude modulation is a technique for creating sounds and effects, such as tremolo, vibrato, or phasing . “All music contains modulation to some degree, but it isn’t controlled to impact brainwaves systematically,” Psyche Loui, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Creativity and Creative Practice and Director of theLoui describes low modulation levels as barely perceptible, “like a gentle thrumming,” and high levels might be quite noticeable, like a “distant helicopter.” “Higher levels of modulation will have a stronger effect on the brain but may be considered intrusive or annoying to neurotypical people,” says Loui, a lead researcher on the study. The study’s final experiment included music that differed only in the rate or depth of amplitude modulation. Brain.fm’s music includes targeted amplitude modulation — rhythmic pulses not typically found in music — designed to impact the brain patterns associated with cognitive control. The music does not contain any vocals or strong melodies. The researchers found that participants who were more likely to have ADHD, based on self-reported symptoms, performed significantly better over time listening to heavily modulated music than did participants without ADHD symptoms. “We know that these modulations in music drive neural oscillations at the same fast rates, namely, Beta waves ,” Loui says. “Our current hypothesis as to why this helps is that ADHD brains need a boost in these brainwaves to function best. The ADHD brain needs strong stimulation to really kick it into gear, so to speak.adds modulation to music that is strong, regular, and most importantly, faster than modulation you would find naturally in music,” she continues. “The music consistently encourages your brainwaves to stay in a pattern associated with focus.” While the study’s results suggest that listening to heavily modulated music could increase focus and sustained attention in people exhibiting ADHD symptoms, it does not rule out alternative types of music. “All types of music can sustain attention for someone with ADHD,” Olivardia says. “It is really an individual decision and depends on context. When reading, I listen to instrumental music. When trying to go to sleep, Enya is my go-to. When writing, it is often loud, cacophonous punk music. It is whatever grounds someone.”found that the music listening habits of young adults with ADHD symptoms differ from those of their neurotypical peers during both less cognitively demanding activities and more cognitively demanding activities .listen to significantly more background music while studying and engaging in sports and other less cognitively demanding activities than do their neurotypical peers. The amount of time spent listening to BM while participating in more cognitively demanding activities did not significantly differ between the two groups. Based on online survey responses, researchers found significant differences between the study’s control group and its ADHD group regarding preferences for certain musical characteristics and styles. The ADHD group had a significantly stronger preference for stimulating music compared with the control group during more and less cognitively demanding activities; a higher percentage of the control group reported preferring relaxing music.may seek additional stimulation to maintain their cognitive engagement, especially during activities like studying, where mind wandering can be more common due to its boring and monotonous nature,” the researchers wrote.Park, J.I., Lee, I.H., Lee, S.J. et al. . Effects of music therapy as an alternative treatment on depression in children and adolescents with ADHD by activating serotonin and improving stress coping ability. Zimmermann, M. B., Diers, K., Strunz, L., Scherbaum, N., and Mette, C. . Listening to Mozart improves current mood in adult ADHD – a randomized controlled pilot study. Woods, K.J.P., Sampaio, G., James, T. et al. . Rapid modulation in music supports attention in listeners with attentional difficulties. Lachance, K., & Gosselin, N. . Listening habits and subjective effects of background music in young adults with and without ADHD.
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