J-Pop Music fMRI Pilot Study: Behavioral and Brain Activity Data

Five participants completed a visual memory task under three auditory conditions during fMRI. Behavioral recall accuracy, subjective focus ratings, and region-of-interest brain activity in the anterior insula and temporo-occipital cortex were descriptively examined. The exploratory pilot study, authored by Yoshiko Tojo, suggests a paradigm for investigating affective music and memory.

Use Cases

• Analyze descriptive trends in memory performance based on auditory condition (J-Pop, unpleasant sounds, no sound)
• Explore correlations between subjective focus ratings and regional brain activity
• Test feasibility of fMRI paradigms combining affective music with visual memory tasks
• Generate hypotheses for future studies on salience-related neural processing

Strengths

• Includes fMRI brain activity data from two specific regions-of-interest (anterior insula and temporo-occipital cortex)
• Contains behavioral metrics (recall accuracy) and subjective ratings (focus) for three distinct auditory conditions
• Data is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0

Limitations

• Very small sample size of 5 participants limits statistical power and generalizability
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Exploratory pilot fMRI study with behavioral and imaging data collection.

Freshness

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