title: Crossmodal effects of Guqin and piano music on selective attention: an event-related potential study.
abstract: To compare the effects of music from different cultural environments (Guqin: Chinese music; piano: Western music) on crossmodal selective attention, behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) data in a standard two-stimulus visual oddball task were recorded from Chinese subjects in three conditions: silence, Guqin music or piano music background. Visual task data were then compared with auditory task data collected previously. In contrast with the results of the auditory task, the early (N1) and late (P300) stages exhibited no differences between Guqin and piano backgrounds during the visual task. Taking our previous study and this study together, we can conclude that: although the cultural-familiar music influenced selective attention both in the early and late stages, these effects appeared only within a sensory modality (auditory) but not in cross-sensory modalities (visual). Thus, the musical cultural factor is more obvious in intramodal than in crossmodal selective attention.
authors.affiliation: School of Information Science, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China.
authors.forename: Weina
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Junjun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xiaojun
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: Changle
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Yuanye
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Xu
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D001288:Attention; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009146:Music; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D055815:Young Adult