Scientists say it could actually help

Normally, I would start this kind of article by saying something in the sense: “Everyone knows how horrible it is to feel sick.” But it is not quite true – many people can send SMS, read and do all kinds of things in a moving vehicle without feeling the slightest nausea. If that looks like you, you will have to trust me – a chronic suffering of transport evil – when I say that it fears wholeheartedly.

In addition, many drugs used for transport evil are delivered with an undesirable side effect: drowsiness. Although this is useful for a long-haul red eye, it definitely kills the atmosphere during a road trip. This is why the researchers have sought to find out if music can help people get back from the car, and they could be on something.

“Transport evil considerably affects travel experience for many people, and existing pharmacological interventions often have side effects such as drowsiness,” said Qizong Yue, researcher at Southwest University in China, in a statement. “Music represents a non -invasive, low cost and personalized intervention strategy.”

Simulated hell

In a study published today in the Revue Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Yue and his colleagues induced the car’s pain in the study participants with a driving simulator (you could not pay me enough to enter it), then played different types of music while monitoring them for potential recovery. According to their results, soft and joyful music better supported recovery. Perhaps surprisingly, even sad music was worse than doing nothing.

The team divided the 30 participants, who had reported moderate levels of despite the previous charity, in six groups – four who listened to music when they recovered from transport, the one who did not do it, and the one whose simulations stop before the participant became the singer.

Everyone wore electroencephalogram plugs (EEG) – Tools that measure electrical activity in the brain. The researchers hoped to identify the indicative brain signals of the car malaté by comparing the neural activity of the first five groups with that of the sixth group – the one for which the simulation stopped before the participants became foul -smelling (OK, you might may pay me to be in group six).

The researchers first measured the EEG signals of each participant when they were still sitting in the simulator. Participants subsequently underwent a driving task and communicated their level in despite. At the end of the task, some participants listened to music for 60 seconds.

The team then asked them how much they were. Participants reported that joyful music reduced car sickness by 57.3%, soft music reduced it by 56.7%and passionate music by 48.3%. Although those who have not listened to music declared 43.3% of symptoms of car sickness after the 60 seconds, the participants who listened to sad music reported a reduction of only 40%.

Researchers suggest that soft music could relax tensions that aggravate the illness of the car, and joyful music can provide distraction by triggering brain reward systems. Sad music could worsen negative feelings and, therefore, worsen a person’s general discomfort.

Your brain when you are sick

Interestingly, EEG data revealed changes in the activity of the participants’ occipital lobe when they said they had their hearts. More specifically, the system recorded a less complex activity when the participants said they feel significantly nauseating. As they recovered, brain activity in this area gradually returned to normal levels.

“Based on our conclusions, individuals experiencing symptoms of transport evil during travel can listen to joyful or sweet music to obtain relief,” said Yue. “The main theoretical executives of Genesis Transport Evil are largely applied to the disease induced by various vehicles.

However, “the main limitation of this study is its relatively small sample size,” added the researcher. “This constraint leads to limited statistical power.” In addition, his brain can react differently to simulation than real conditions. In other words, more research with larger samples are necessary to confirm both the models of the brain of evil and to continue to study the impact of music on transport evil.

In the future, the team will study different types of ill -treatment and the influence of the taste of music. And if one of the researchers reads this article, I would like to suggest studying the anecdotal evidence of the way the song helps to prevent and / or recover from transport. He would finally prove to my family that I need To leave the words of all the songs of Taylor Swift when we hit these windy roads.