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Personality modulates brain responses to emotion in music: Comparing whole-brain and regions-of-variance approaches
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2019.
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Abstract
- Whether and how personality traits explain the individual variance in neural responses to emotion in music remains unclear. The sparse studies on this topic report inconsistent findings. The present study extends previous work using regions of variance (ROVs) as regions of interest, compared with whole-brain analysis. Fifty-five subjects listened to happy, sad, and fearful music during functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Personality was measured with the Big Five Questionnaire. Results confirmed previous observations of Neuroticism being positively related to activation during sad music, in the left inferior parietal lobe. In an exploratory analysis, Openness was positively related to activation during Happy music in an extended cluster in auditory areas, primarily including portions of the left Heschl’s gyrus, superior and middle temporal gyri, supramarginal gyrus, and Rolandic operculum. In the whole-brain analysis, similar results were found for Neuroticism but not for Openness. In turn, we did not replicate previous findings of Extraversion associated to activity during happy music, nor Neuroticism during fearful music. These results support a trait-congruent link between personality and emotion-elicited brain activity, and further our understanding of the action-observation network during emotional music listening. This study also indicates the usefulness of the ROV method in individual-differences research.
- Subjects :
- Extraversion and introversion
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Brain activity and meditation
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05 social sciences
behavioral disciplines and activities
Neuroticism
humanities
050105 experimental psychology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Supramarginal gyrus
mental disorders
Openness to experience
medicine
Personality
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Big Five personality traits
Psychology
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
human activities
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Cognitive psychology
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- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....43a70af71bc74549d300db6a4fdb17d6