A Choreography Memory Task Study with a Music DVD Using fNIRS

(The 28th Symposium on Life Information Science)

Abstract

We measured brain blood flow using fNIRS for subjects while they did choreography memory task accompanying a music DVD. We found common activated areas at the prefrontal area of four subjects and those were considered to be areas activated by music. The other activated areas could be categorized into two patterns. One of them seemed to be a reflection of memory activities to guess the whole process of the choreography comprehensively, and the other was a reflection of guessing a logical or spatial structure of the choreography. Working memory areas were not activated. Our results suggested a possibility that different strategies of memory showed different patterns at prefrontal areas.