Interbrain synchronization in classroom during high-entropy music listening and meditation: a hyperscanning EEG study.
Frontiers in neuroscience January 1, 2025 Junling Gao, Hang Kin Leung, Kin Cheung George Lee et al. 6 citations
Mindfulness meditation and 6 Hz high-entropy music both alter adolescent brain dynamics, but in distinct ways. In twenty-eight high school students, single-channel EEG at the forehead during three 5-minute conditions—rest, meditation, and music—showed that music produced the strongest alpha-band synchronization across participants, followed by meditation, then rest. Meditation yielded the highest clustering coefficient and small-world index, indicating more integrated and efficient neural networks. Music generated the largest information cascades and synergy, suggesting extensive information integration. While both interventions changed brain dynamics compared to rest, meditation fostered integrated connectivity, whereas music produced the greatest element-wise correlation.