Abstract:
Progress in neuroscience has quickly increased knowledge of neural insights
with musical participation. Researchers have endeavoured to identify brain
responses that are related to experiences of music participation. However,
interest in neuroscientific study of music is hard to find in Ghana. There seems
to be a paucity of research on brain response to music stimuli as well as its
relationship to brain development. The objective of tbis study was to
investigate brain responses to music stimuli. The study was conducted within
the framework of brain stages of human development theory. A mixed
factorial ANOV A and hypothesis testing were conducted. One hundred
students (N=lOO) were randomly sampled to participate in the study. Data for
the study were collected using the EmotivEPOC+ EEG and EmotivPRO
interface. A one-way repeated measures ANOVA was conducted to
investigate the significance of main effect of brain lobes in responses to music
among respondents (N = 100). The results of the ANOV A indicated a
significant effect among brain lobe, which was observed between the Frontal
and the Occipital lobes, Wilks' Lambda A =.92 F (3,97) = 2.87, p = .040.
