Trait empathy modulates music-related functional connectivity.
Moorthigari, V.; Carlson, E.; Toiviainen, P.; Vuust, P.; Brattico, E.; Alluri, V.
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It has been well established through behavioural studies that empathy significantly influences music perception. Such individual differences typically manifest as variability in whole brain functional connectivity patterns. To date, nobody has examined the modulatory effect of empathy on functional connectivity patterns during continuous music listening. In the present study, we seek to investigate the global and local connectivity patterns of 36 participants whose fMRI scanning was done by employing the naturalistic paradigm wherein they listened to a continuous piece of music. We used graph-based measures of functional connectivity to identify how cognitive and affective components of empathy modulate functional connectivity. Partial correlation between Eigenvector centrality and measures of empathy showed that cognitive empathy is associated with higher centrality in the sensorimotor regions responsible for motor mimicry while affective empathy showed higher centrality in regions related to auditory affect processing. We furthermore identified a left-hemispheric dominance in the modulatory effect of affective empathy particularly in the Orbitofrontal cortex and the temporal pole. Results are discussed in relation to various theoretical models of empathy and music cognition.
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