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Trait Empathy Shapes Neural Responses Toward Sad Music
Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience ( IF 2.9 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-20 , DOI: 10.3758/s13415-020-00861-x
Liila Taruffi 1 , Stavros Skouras 2 , Corinna Pehrs 3 , Stefan Koelsch 2
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Individuals with a predisposition to empathize engage with sad music in a compelling way, experiencing overall more pleasurable emotions. However, the neural mechanisms underlying these music-related experiences in empathic individuals are unknown. The present study tested whether dispositional empathy modulates neural responses to sad compared with happy music. Twenty-four participants underwent fMRI while listening to 4-min blocks of music evoking sadness or happiness. Using voxel-wise regression, we found a positive correlation between trait empathy (with scores assessed by the Interpersonal Reactivity Index) and eigenvector centrality values in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), including the medial orbitofrontal cortex (mOFC). We then performed a functional connectivity (FC) analysis to detect network nodes showing stronger FC with the vmPFC/mOFC during the presentation of sad versus happy music. By doing so, we identified a “music-empathy” network (vmPFC/mOFC, dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, primary visual cortex, bilateral claustrum and putamen, and cerebellum) that is spontaneously recruited while listening to sad music and includes brain regions that support the coding of compassion, mentalizing, and visual mental imagery. Importantly, our findings extend the current understanding of empathic behaviors to the musical domain and pinpoint sad music as an effective stimulus to be employed in social neuroscience research.



中文翻译:

特质移情塑造对悲伤音乐的神经反应

具有移情倾向的人以令人信服的方式参与悲伤的音乐,体验整体更愉悦的情绪。然而,共情个体的这些音乐相关体验背后的神经机制尚不清楚。本研究测试了与快乐音乐相比,性格同理心是否会调节对悲伤的神经反应。24 名参与者在听 4 分钟令人悲伤或快乐的音乐时接受了 fMRI。使用体素回归,我们发现特质同理心(通过人际反应指数评估的分数)与腹内侧前额叶皮层(vmPFC),包括内侧眶额叶皮层(mOFC)中的特征向量中心值之间呈正相关。然后,我们进行了功能连接 (FC) 分析,以检测在呈现悲伤音乐与快乐音乐期间,使用 vmPFC/mOFC 显示出更强 FC 的网络节点。通过这样做,我们确定了一个“音乐移情”网络(vmPFC/mOFC、背内侧前额叶皮层、初级视觉皮层、双侧闭壳和壳核以及小脑),它在听悲伤音乐时自发地被招募,包括支持同情心、心理化和视觉心理意象的编码。重要的是,我们的研究结果将当前对移情行为的理解扩展到音乐领域,并将悲伤的音乐确定为可用于社会神经科学研究的有效刺激。背内侧前额叶皮层、初级视觉皮层、双侧锁骨和壳核以及小脑),在听悲伤音乐时自发招募,包括支持同情心、心智化和视觉心理意象编码的大脑区域。重要的是,我们的研究结果将当前对移情行为的理解扩展到音乐领域,并将悲伤的音乐确定为可用于社会神经科学研究的有效刺激。背内侧前额叶皮层、初级视觉皮层、双侧锁骨和壳核以及小脑),在听悲伤音乐时自发招募,包括支持同情心、心智化和视觉心理意象编码的大脑区域。重要的是,我们的研究结果将当前对移情行为的理解扩展到音乐领域,并将悲伤的音乐确定为可用于社会神经科学研究的有效刺激。

更新日期:2021-01-21
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