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  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Music Therapy

Background:

  • Music listening offers mild pain relief, but its clinical use is limited.
  • Sensorimotor synchronization to music may activate the endogenous opioid system for stronger analgesia.
  • Active engagement with music could yield greater pain reduction than passive listening.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if active sensorimotor synchronization to music amplifies music's pain-reducing effects.
  • To compare the analgesic effects of music listening with and without active tapping.
  • To explore the mechanisms underlying music-induced analgesia during sensorimotor synchronization.

Main Methods:

  • 59 healthy adults received pain stimuli via pressure algometry to the fingernails.
  • Participants were assigned to conditions of music listening or silence, with or without active tapping.
  • A passive control task was used for comparison.

Main Results:

  • Music with active tapping significantly reduced pain (effect size d = 0.93), unlike music alone or tapping alone.
  • The analgesic effect of music with tapping was large and clinically significant.
  • Attentional and emotional mechanisms were identified as drivers of pain reduction.

Conclusions:

  • Active sensorimotor synchronization to music significantly enhances pain relief.
  • Tapping to music offers greater analgesic benefits than passive music listening.
  • This approach holds potential for clinical pain management and everyday life applications.