Music and MeditationRicky Davila, Sarah Smith, Cecilia Wu

Outline• Intro/Background A. Nowadays information are overloaded and people have little chance to keep inner peace. B. Intense pressure causes mental disease such as depression ... C. Have little time to maintain mental practice and make improvement

• Goal Help people stay calm, stay happy and stay healthy

• Training Method: FA (Focus Attention) Meditation + Auditory Attention Training

• Results Easier to practice and more efficient than only using one method

Introduction / Existing Literature

• Motivations/ Interest in calming and Meditation A. Long-term meditators self-induce high-amplitude gamma synchrony during mental practice, even short term training for 4 weeks may help. B. Interested in Chanting music research

• Past Research A. Mental training can affect cortical engagement. B. State concentrate can significantly decrease in emotionally reactive behaviors C. Attention is plastic and trainable. D. Meditative practice is the most effective training method in enhancing emotional well-being and improve emotional functioning. F. Long-term practitioners had altered the structure and function of their brains.

Headset InterfaceHeadset with single EEG sensorSoftware translates data into a measures of

attention, meditation, and blink detection.

Pre/Post TaskTry to keep the ball in the air by relaxing Software measures the time of elevation and

maximum height

Training Activity

Data and ConclusionsParticipants showed Improvement in the task

after trainingBoth the time the ball spent in the air and the

maximum height increased