RT Journal Article
T1 Impact of music performance anxiety on cardiovascular blood pressure responses, autonomic tone and baroreceptor sensitivity to a western classical music piano-concert
A1 Moreno-Gutiérrez, Juan Ángel
A1 De-Rojas-Leal, Carmen
A1 López-González, Manuel Víctor
A1 Chao-Écija, Álvaro
A1 Dawid-Milner, Marc Stefan
K1 Música - Aspectos fisiológicos
AB 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.
PB Frontiers
YR 2023
FD 2023-07
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36240
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36240
LA eng
NO Moreno-Gutiérrez JÁ, de Rojas Leal C, López-González MV, Chao-Écija A and Dawid-Milner MS (2023) Impact of music performance anxiety on cardiovascular blood pressure responses, autonomic tone and baroreceptor sensitivity to a western classical music piano-concert. Front. Neurosci. 17:1213117. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1213117
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 26 ene 2026