Dyadic Heart-Rate Synchrony During Music Therapy in Neurorehabilitation

A 2026 study by Sun Sun Yap on figshare investigates heart-rate synchrony between a music therapist and 11 in-patients during neurorehabilitation sessions. The dataset includes dyadic heart-rate data, session videos, and notes, focusing on moments of interest within therapy interventions averaging 25.62 minutes. It explores relationships between physiological synchrony, nonverbal synchrony, and patient therapy readiness.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the emergence of dyadic heart-rate synchrony based on time-series physiological data.
• Investigating the relationship between therapy intervention duration and physiological synchrony based on described session lengths.
• Exploring correlations between heart-rate synchrony and therapist-selected moments of interest within therapy sessions.
• Studying the link between physiological and nonverbal synchrony in a therapeutic context as mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Includes multimodal data: heart-rate time-series, session videos, and notes.
• Based on a study with 11 in-patients and one therapist, providing specific participant counts.
• Reports specific mean durations for therapy interventions (25.62 min) and moments of interest (76 s).

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The sample size of 11 patients is relatively small for broad generalization.
• Data freshness should be verified as the last update is listed as 2026-04-17, a future date.

Provenance

Source

Sun Sun Yap via figshare

Collection Method

Data collected from a convenience sample of 11 in-patients and one music therapist during music therapy interventions.

Time Range

Study period not specified; dataset last updated 2026-04-17.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 05:20:56