Differential Effects of Trait Empathy on Functional Network Centrality

Moorthigari, Vishnu; Carlson, Emily; Toiviainen, Petri; Brattico, Elvira; Alluri, Vinoo

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“…The close connections of empathy to both functional processing and emotional associations have inspired copious work in the field of neurosciences and music (Huron & Vuoskoski, 2020; Wallmark et al, 2018). “Trait empathy” (as a stable component of personality) is widely acknowledged as a factor that can modulate response patterns (Moorthigari et al, 2020) and research has repeatedly investigated gender differences in empathy (e.g., Löffler & Greitemeyer, 2021).…”

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“The two voices,” or more? Music and gender from myth and conquests to the neurosciences

Majno¹

2023

J of Neuroscience Research

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Music is a unique phenomenon, constantly eliciting interest from a variety of viewpoints, several of which intersect the universal trait of musicality with sex/gender studies and the neurosciences. Its unparalleled power and physical, social, aesthetic, as well as cognitive, emotional and clinical ramifications make it a specially promising terrain for studies and reflections on sex and gender differences and their impact. This overview wishes to enhance awareness of such issues, also fostering an interdisciplinary exchange between the natural sciences, the humanities, and the arts. Over the centuries, different associations of music with the feminine gender have contributed to a pendulum between progressive recognition and stereotypical setbacks requiring to be overcome. Against this backdrop, music‐related neurophysiological and psychological studies on sex and gender specificities are reviewed in their multiple approaches and results, exposing or questioning differences in structural, auditory, hormonal, cognitive, and behavioral areas, also in relation to abilities, treatment, and pedagogy. Thus, the bridging potential of music as universal yet diverse language, art, and practice, recommends its gender‐aware integration into education, protective endeavors, and therapeutic interventions, to promote equality and well‐being.

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Section: Psychopathological Psychological and Cognitive Differencesmentioning

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“The two voices,” or more? Music and gender from myth and conquests to the neurosciences

Majno¹

2023

J of Neuroscience Research

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“…found that using dynamic functional connectivity patterns as features outperformed by a significant margin their static counterparts in identifying individuals. Using eigenvector centrality mapping, Moorthigari et al 13 . found that cognitive empathy was associated with higher centrality in sensorimotor regions responsible for motor mimicry, while affective empathy was associated with higher centrality in regions related to auditory affect processing.…”

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“…Model-free No external regressor ISC 6 and ISPS 12 PCA, 11 ICA, 11,14 and graph-based methods 10,13 Abbreviations: ICA, independent component analysis; ISC, inter-subject correlation; ISPS, inter-subject phase synchrony; PCA, principal components analysis; PPI, psychophysiological interaction analysis; SPM, statistical parametric mapping.…”

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“…Gandhi et al 12 found that using dynamic functional connectivity patterns as features outperformed by a significant margin their static counterparts in identifying individuals. Using eigenvector centrality mapping, Moorthigari et al 13 found that cognitive empathy was associated with higher centrality in sensorimotor regions responsible for motor mimicry, while affective empathy was associated with higher centrality in regions related to auditory affect processing. Finally, combining model-free and model-based paradigms, Burunat et al 14 used region-based ICA along with a computationally extracted beat salience regressor to investigate the coupling of action-perception brain networks during musical pulse processing.…”

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The naturalistic paradigm: An approach to studying individual variability in neural underpinnings of music perception

Alluri,

Toiviainen

2023

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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Music listening is a dynamic process that entails complex interactions between sensory, cognitive, and emotional processes. The naturalistic paradigm provides a means to investigate these processes in an ecologically valid manner by allowing experimental settings that mimic real‐life musical experiences. In this paper, we highlight the importance of the naturalistic paradigm in studying dynamic music processing and discuss how it allows for investigating both the segregation and integration of brain processes using model‐based and model‐free methods. We further suggest that studying individual difference‐modulated music processing in this paradigm can provide insights into the mechanisms of brain plasticity, which can have implications for the development of interventions and therapies in a personalized way. Finally, despite the challenges that the naturalistic paradigm poses, we end with a discussion on future prospects of music and neuroscience research, especially with the continued development and refinement of naturalistic paradigms and the adoption of open science practices.

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“…New solutions are suggested by the research work that has been done in music psychology in the decades since Bunt et al (1988) discussed the challenges to collaboration. The advent of computational resources capable of handling highly dimensional data has allowed researchers studying neural responses to music begin to use naturalistic music stimuli in studies rather than more easily controlled (but less ecologically valid) MIDI recordings or sine waves (e.g., Alluri et al, 2012;Cong et al, 2013;Omigie, Lehongre, Navarro, Claude, & Samson, 2019), and to understand the neural processing of music in terms of networks rather than regions of interest (e.g., Moorthigari, Carlson, Toiviainen, Brattico, Alluri, 2020). Similarly, those studying motor responses to music have begun to analyze complex, whole-body movements (e.g., Burger, 2013;Toiviainen, Luck, & Thompson, 2010) and tackle the challenges of analyzing movement in social settings (e.g., Carlson et al, 2018;Solberg & Jensenius, 2017); music performance as a social behavior is also being studied (e.g., Novembre, Ticini, Schu ¨tz-Bosbach, & Keller, 2014).…”

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Reopening the Conversation Between Music Psychology and Music Therapy

Carlson

Cross

2021

Music Perception

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Although the fields of music psychology and music therapy share many common interests, research collaboration between the two fields is still somewhat rare. Previous work has identified that disciplinary identities and attitudes towards those in other disciplines are challenges to effective interdisciplinary research. The current study explores such attitudes in music therapy and music psychology. A sample of 123 music therapists and music psychologists answered an online survey regarding their attitudes towards potential interdisciplinary work between the two fields. Analysis of results suggested that participants’ judgements of the attitudes of members of the other discipline were not always accurate. Music therapists indicated a high degree of interest in interdisciplinary research, although in free text answers, both music psychologists and music therapists frequently characterized music therapists as disinterested in science. Music therapists reported seeing significantly greater relevance of music psychology to their own work than did music psychologists of music therapists. Participants’ attitudes were modestly related to their reported personality traits and held values. Results overall indicated interest in, and positive expectations of, interdisciplinary attitudes in both groups, and should be explored in future research.

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Differential Effects of Trait Empathy on Functional Network Centrality

Cited by 4 publications

References 32 publications

“The two voices,” or more? Music and gender from myth and conquests to the neurosciences

“The two voices,” or more? Music and gender from myth and conquests to the neurosciences

The naturalistic paradigm: An approach to studying individual variability in neural underpinnings of music perception

Reopening the Conversation Between Music Psychology and Music Therapy

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