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- Title
Impact of music performance anxiety on cardiovascular blood pressure responses, autonomic tone and baroreceptor sensitivity to a western classical music piano-concert.
- Authors
Ángel Moreno-Gutiérrez, Juan; de Rojas Leal, Carmen; Víctor López-González, Manuel; López-González, Víctor; Stefan Dawid-Milner, Marc
- Abstract
Introduction: Music Performance Anxiety (MPA) is a prevalent condition among musicians that can manifest both psychologically and physiologically, leading to impaired musical performance. Physiologically, MPA is characterized by excessive muscular and/or autonomic tone. This study focuses on the cardiovascular blood pressure responses, autonomic tone and baroreceptor sensitivity changes that occur during musical performance due to MPA. Methods: Six professional pianists perform a piece for piano written only for the left hand by Alexander Scriabin. The following parameters have been studied during the performance: ECG, non-invasive beat to beat continuous arterial blood pressure and skin conductance. Sympathetic and parasympathetic autonomic flow was studied with Wigner-Ville analysis (W-V) from R-R ECG variability, and baroreceptor sensitivity with the Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT). Results: During the concert a significant increase of heart rate, systolic, mean and diastolic arterial pressure were observed. No significant differences were found in skin conductance. The W-V analysis, which studies frequency changes in the time domain, shows a significant increase of sympathetic flow and a decrease of parasympathetic flow during the concert which is associated with a significant decrease in sympathetic and vagal baroreceptor sensitivity. Discussion: The study of cardiac variability using the Wigner-Ville analysis may be a suitable method to assess the autonomic response in the context of MPA, and could be used as biofeedback in personalized multimodal treatments.
- Subjects
SCRIABIN, Aleksandr Nikolayevich, 1872-1915; PERFORMANCE anxiety; MUSICAL performance; BLOOD pressure; DIASTOLIC blood pressure; HEART beat
- Publication
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023, p1
- ISSN
1662-4548
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3389/fnins.2023.1213117