What question did this study set out to answer?

This research aims to assess the effectiveness of mindfulness-based music in regulating negative emotions and to explore the underlying neural mechanisms.

March 1, 2026

Quantitative EEG Evidences Reveal an Effective Approach for Regulating Negative Emotions via Listening Mindfulness-based Music

Puntos clave

This research aims to assess the effectiveness of mindfulness-based music in regulating negative emotions and to explore the underlying neural mechanisms.
Participants listened to customized mindfulness music to regulate negative emotions.
EEG data were collected during baseline, emotion-inducing, and regulation phases.
Analysis of frequency bands and neural reorganization was conducted to evaluate emotional responses.
Participants reported successful reductions in negative emotional valence and arousal.
Significant changes in theta and gamma band power were observed, indicating neural reallocation.
Distinct neural pathways were identified for regulating sadness and fear.

Resumen

The detrimental effects of negative emotional states have prompted extensive research into developing effective emotion regulation strategies. Here, we introduced a standardized protocol via merging mindfulness prompts with soothing music for regulating negative emotions (i.e., sadness and fear) and investigated the underlying neural mechanisms during emotion regulation. Specifically, EEG data were obtained from 43 healthy participants (m/f = 18/25, age = 22.7 ° 2.2 yrs) throughout baseline (eyesclosed resting), emotion inducing (via watching sadness/fear film clips selected from SEED-IV dataset), and regulation (via listening customized mindfulness-based music) phases. Post-intervention questionnaire showed successful reduction of emotion-related negative valence and arousal. Following analyses revealed broad oscillatory dynamics across various frequency bands as well as network reorganizations, suggesting neural resource reallocation during regulation towards baseline. More importantly, the righthemispheric lateralization of theta- and gamma-band power and theta-band global efficiency distinctions between sadness and fear highlighted emotion-specific regulatory pathways. In sum, these findings validate the effectiveness of the proposed synthesized mindfulness-music in emotion regulation and elucidate the corresponding spectro-topological reorganizations, paving the way for further exploratory investigations of personalized interventions targeting distinct negative emotions.

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