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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Hum. Neurosci.
Sec. Brain Imaging and Stimulation
Volume 18 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2024.1469468
This article is part of the Research Topic EEG Rhythms: Decoding the Evolutionary Enigma of Alpha Rhythms in Vertebrates View all 5 articles

A Comparative Study of EEG Microstate Dynamics during Happy and Sad Music Videos

Provisionally accepted
Ashish Gupta Ashish Gupta 1*Chandan Kumar Srivastava Chandan Kumar Srivastava 2*Braj Bhushan Braj Bhushan 1Laxmidhar Behera Laxmidhar Behera 1,3*
  • 1 Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
  • 2 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
  • 3 Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, India

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    EEG Microstates offer a unique window into the dynamics of emotional experiences. This study delved into the emotional responses of happiness and sadness triggered by music videos, employing microstate analysis and eLoreta source-level investigation in the alpha band. The results of the microstate analysis showed that regardless of gender, participants during happy music video significantly up-regulated class D microstate and down-regulated class C microstate, leading to a significantly enhanced Global explained Variance (GEV), coverage, occurrence, duration, and Global field power (GFP) for class D. Conversely, sad music video had the opposite effect. The eLoreta study revealed that during the happy state, there was enhanced CSD in the central parietal regions across both genders and diminished functional connectivity in the precuneus for female participants compared to the sad state. Class D and class C microstates are linked to attention and mind-wandering, respectively. Findings suggest that (1) increased class D and CSD activity could explain heightened attentiveness observed during happy music, and (2) increased class C activity and functional connectivity could explain enhanced mind wandering observed during sad music. Additionally, female participants exhibited significantly higher mean occurrence than males, and the sad state showed significantly higher mean occurrence than the happy state.

    Keywords: EEG microstate, emotion, Music, Attention, mind wandering

    Received: 23 Jul 2024; Accepted: 23 Dec 2024.

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    * Correspondence:
    Ashish Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, 208 016, Uttar Pradesh, India
    Chandan Kumar Srivastava, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, 400 076, Maharashtra, India
    Laxmidhar Behera, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, India

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