A Study on Melody Tempo with EEG

In this paper,tempo perception is investi-gated by recording spontaneous electroencephalograph (EEG).Ten normal male non-musician college students are selected according to questionnaire results after listening absorbedly to four different tempos of an excerpt from a Mozart sonata.EEGs data are recorded when the subjects are listening to the music.The EEG spectral power (SP) is analyzed for alpha band.The varying trend of power spectrum during exposure to music excerpts of different tempos is studied and shows the consistence with the previous tempo-specific hypo-thesis:a tempo-transformed performance will sound less natural than an original performance does.The results presented in this paper suggest that tempo is an important factor that could influence the alpha rhythm.