Investigation of music and colours influences on the levels of emotion and concentration

Abstract

Experimental evidence already demonstrated that music and colours have an influence on emotion, attention and concentration. Due to the rapid technical progress, new devices are available to evaluate even more the brain signals, to map and compare them with reference values. Therefore, starting from the fact that music and colours not only express emotion, but also produce emotions at different levels depending on the psychological and mental health of the user, we investigate with NeuroSky technology, precisely with the MindWave headset, the amplitude and spectral components of low frequency brainwave signal, translated into a relationship between music, colour and the outcome of mental activity. The aim of this paper is to investigate the music’s and colour’s influence on the brain activity, mainly the increase on the concentration level noting the help to students enrolled in distance-learning programs. A LabVIEW application is developed in order to better monitor and do the spectral analyses and statistics calculations of the music and/or colour induced brain waves.