Brain Response To Music Among Pupils In The University Of Cape Coast Basic School

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.