Effects of Auditory Stimuli on Blood Pressure, Respiration Rate, and Heart Rate Changes While Watching a Suspenseful Video
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2017Author
Aly, Besma
Eversten, Forrester
Omoba, Oreoluwa
Schaller, Rachel
Terlap, Emily
Publisher
Journal of Advanced Student Sciences (JASS)
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The purpose of this study was to test the effect of auditory and visual stimuli on subjects’
physiological response. The auditory stimuli included white noise, calming music, and music
anticipated to induce stress, which were divided among three groups. The physiological response
was measured by the following parameters: diastolic and systolic blood pressure, respiration rate,
and heart rate. These values were compared to baselines taken while participants received no
auditory stimuli and values taken while participants listened to unique stimuli based on their
group assignment. We hypothesized that calming music would result in similar values to those
taken as baselines while watching the horror movie scene, while the scary music would result in
elevated heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration rate compared to the control. Our results
displayed a reduction in heart rate with calming music and an increase in heart rate with stressful
music alone, however the results were not significant enough to conclude a definitive
relationship between the auditory stimuli and heart rate. Values for blood pressure and heartbeats
per minute were also not significant enough to support our hypothesis.
Subject
blood pressure
Heart Rate
Respiration
Anxiety
Auditory
Autonomic Nervous System
Respiration
Sound
Visual
Video
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http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/81879Description
An article that appeared in JASS, issue 2017