Music Structure & Blood Pressure: Personalized Therapy
Summary of the Provided Text:
This text is a press release/information block related to research on the relationship between music and the autonomic nervous system. Here’s a breakdown of the key information:
Research Focus:
The research investigates how loudness and tempo structures in music affect heart rate variability (RR intervals) and respiration – specifically, how people become “entrained” to music.
They’ve developed computational methods to validate the synchronization between musical phrase structures and autonomic responses.
Key Findings/Presentations:
research was presented at the 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and biology Society (EMBC) in July 2025.
Previous work was presented at Computing in Cardiology (CinC) in September 2024 and the International conference of the Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) in November 2024.
Funding & Disclosures:
Funding: Supported by the European Research Council (ERC) through the COSMOS project.
Disclosures: Several researchers (Cotic, Pope, Soliński, Chew, Lambiase) have received research support from the ERC and/or other organizations (EPSRC, NIHR, BHF). Prof. Chew has also received honoraria for advisory/consulting roles and speaking engagements.
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ESC Press Office: +33 6 61 40 18 84, press@escardio.org
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In essence, this is a interaction about scientific research exploring the physiological impact of music, with details for journalists and information about funding and potential conflicts of interest.