Listening to 'music that makes you feel happy' may reduce motion sickness
For some people, traveling in a car driving on a winding mountain road or on a rocking boat can regularly cause motion sickness, but a Chinese research team has shown that listening to certain types of music may help reduce the symptoms of motion sickness.
Frontiers | A study on the mitigating effect of different music types on motion sickness based on EEG analysis
One Kind of Music Could Be an Unexpected Cure For Motion Sickness : ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/one-kind-of-music-could-be-an-unexpected-cure-for-motion-sickness
A research team led by neuroscientist Yitzurin Li of the Henan University of Science and Technology in China conducted an experiment on 30 subjects to investigate the effect of music on the symptoms of motion sickness.
Thirty participants wore electroencephalography (EEG) caps and rode in a driving simulator, allowing the researchers to monitor in real time how their brain activity transitioned from a stable state to a state of motion sickness and then back again.
The state of the experiment is like this.
The subjects were divided into six groups: four groups listened to music for one minute after experiencing motion sickness, one group acted as a control and practiced meditation for one minute after experiencing motion sickness to calm themselves, and the third group finished the driving simulator before experiencing motion sickness.
The research team analyzed how listening to music improved recovery from motion sickness compared with a control group that meditated.
The results showed that the 'happy music' group had an average 14 percentage point reduction in motion sickness symptoms compared to the control group, followed by the 'calming music' group, which had an average 13.4 percentage point reduction in symptoms.
On the other hand, the group that listened to 'emotional music' only saw an average reduction in symptoms of 5 percentage points, while the group that listened to 'sad music' saw symptoms that were 3.3 percentage points worse than the control group.
The EEG data from this study suggested that motion sickness was negatively correlated with brain activity in the occipital lobe, which helps process visual information. The worse the subject's mood, the less complex the activity in this area, but as their mood improved, the more complex the activity.
Science Alert, a science media outlet, points out that this experiment was based on a very small sample size, making it difficult to determine how important the differences in music are. However, research has shown that music has the power to change people's moods, and that music can help reduce the symptoms of VR sickness that occurs when wearing VR equipment. The results of this study are consistent with these previous studies.
The research team hypothesized that 'sad music' may worsen the discomfort of motion sickness through emotional resonance, while 'cheerful music' that uplifts mood or 'calm music' that relaxes people may help them maintain good physical condition and reduce motion sickness.
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