The present invention relates to a method and system for analysing audio such as music or other sounds, for playback to a person, the method and system are may be used in applications harnessing a biofeedback resource such as a database of music to manipulate neuro-physiological arousal, state of mind, mood and/or affect. There is provided a system for selecting audio tracks for playback to a human subject according to a preselected desired mental state of the human subject, the audio tracks being selected according to a model of human neuro-physiological response and response to sounds by one or more of the human lower cortical, limbic and subcortical regions in the brain to sound, the neuro-physiological model being used to select the audio tracks for playback according to the neuro-physiological response to the audio tracks predicted by the neuro-physiological model.
A system for analysing sound or music using a predictive model of the response of regions of the brain and ear