Music – Dresden – The researcher examines the connection between music and sleep – culture

Dresden (dpa / sn) – An international research group, including the Dresden scientist Miriam Akkermann, wants to investigate the influence of music on sleep. Lullabies and lullabies are known in all cultures and at all times as an effective sleep aid, not just for babies, the Technical University of Dresden announced on Monday about the project called “Lullabyte”. Music has powerful effects on the human brain. However, what specific influence it has on the transition from wakefulness to sleep has been little studied to date.

The project aims to fill this gap. According to TU, researchers in the fields of musicology, sleep research, neuroscience and computer science from ten European universities are involved, including the University of Aarhus in Denmark, the Paris Brain Institute in France and the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Akkermann is junior professor of empirical musicology in Dresden and coordinates the network.

In Dresden, one wonders if there are musical characteristics that traditional lullabies and lullabies and modern “music for sleeping or relaxing” have in common and whether from this one can derive claims about the effect of musical structures on sleep. Of particular interest here is how the falling asleep process and sleep structure are changed or influenced by different types of music, Akkermann explained.

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