| In the past few decades, several studies have reported the physiological effects of listening to music. The
physiological effects of different music types on different people are not similar. Therefore, in the present
study, we have sought to examine the effects of traditional Persian music on the cardiac function in young
women. Twenty-two healthy females participated in this study. ECG signals were recorded in two
conditions: rest and music. For each of the 21 ECG signals (15 morphological and six wavelet based
feature) features were extracted. SVM classifier was used for the classification of ECG signals during and
before the music. The results showed that the mean of heart rate, the mean amplitude of R-wave, T-wave,
and P-wave decreased in response to music. Time-frequency analysis revealed that the mean of the
absolute values of the detail coefficients at higher scales increased during rest. The overall accuracy of
91.6% was achieved using polynomial kernel and RBF kernel. Using linear kernel, the best result (with the
accuracy rate of 100%) was attained. |