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Increased Insular Connectivity and Enhanced Empathic Ability Associated with Dance/Music Training
Dance and music are expressive art forms. Previous behavioural studies have reported that dancers/musicians show a better sensorimotor ability and emotional representation of others. However, the neural mechanism behind this phenomenon is not completely understood. Recently, intensive researches hav...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6526550/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31198419 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/9693109 |
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author | Gujing, Li Hui, He Xin, Li Lirong, Zhang Yutong, Yao Guofeng, Ye Jing, Lu Shulin, Zhou Lei, Yang Cheng, Luo Dezhong, Yao |
author_facet | Gujing, Li Hui, He Xin, Li Lirong, Zhang Yutong, Yao Guofeng, Ye Jing, Lu Shulin, Zhou Lei, Yang Cheng, Luo Dezhong, Yao |
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description | Dance and music are expressive art forms. Previous behavioural studies have reported that dancers/musicians show a better sensorimotor ability and emotional representation of others. However, the neural mechanism behind this phenomenon is not completely understood. Recently, intensive researches have identified that the insula is highly enrolled in the empathic process. Thus, to expand the knowledge of insular function associated with empathy under the dance/music training background, we mapped the insular network and its associated brain regions in 21 dancers, 20 musicians, and 24 healthy controls using resting-state functional connectivity (FC) analysis. Whole brain voxel-based analysis was performed using seeds from the posterior insula (PI), the ventral anterior insula (vAI), and the dorsal anterior insula (dAI). The training effects of dance and music on insular subnetworks were then evaluated using one-way analysis of variance ANOVA. Increased insular FC with those seeds was found in dancers/musicians, including PI and anterior cingulated cortex (ACC), vAI and middle temporal gyrus (MTG) and middle cingulated cortex (MCC), and dAI and ACC and MTG. In addition, significant associations were found between discrepant insular FC patterns and empathy scores in dancers and musicians. These results indicated that dance/music training might enhance insular subnetwork function, which would facilitate integration of intero/exteroceptive information and result in better affective sensitivity. Those changes might finally facilitate the subjects' empathic ability. |
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spelling | pubmed-65265502019-06-13 Increased Insular Connectivity and Enhanced Empathic Ability Associated with Dance/Music Training Gujing, Li Hui, He Xin, Li Lirong, Zhang Yutong, Yao Guofeng, Ye Jing, Lu Shulin, Zhou Lei, Yang Cheng, Luo Dezhong, Yao Neural Plast Research Article Dance and music are expressive art forms. Previous behavioural studies have reported that dancers/musicians show a better sensorimotor ability and emotional representation of others. However, the neural mechanism behind this phenomenon is not completely understood. Recently, intensive researches have identified that the insula is highly enrolled in the empathic process. Thus, to expand the knowledge of insular function associated with empathy under the dance/music training background, we mapped the insular network and its associated brain regions in 21 dancers, 20 musicians, and 24 healthy controls using resting-state functional connectivity (FC) analysis. Whole brain voxel-based analysis was performed using seeds from the posterior insula (PI), the ventral anterior insula (vAI), and the dorsal anterior insula (dAI). The training effects of dance and music on insular subnetworks were then evaluated using one-way analysis of variance ANOVA. Increased insular FC with those seeds was found in dancers/musicians, including PI and anterior cingulated cortex (ACC), vAI and middle temporal gyrus (MTG) and middle cingulated cortex (MCC), and dAI and ACC and MTG. In addition, significant associations were found between discrepant insular FC patterns and empathy scores in dancers and musicians. These results indicated that dance/music training might enhance insular subnetwork function, which would facilitate integration of intero/exteroceptive information and result in better affective sensitivity. Those changes might finally facilitate the subjects' empathic ability. Hindawi 2019-05-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6526550/ /pubmed/31198419 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/9693109 Text en Copyright © 2019 Li Gujing et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Gujing, Li Hui, He Xin, Li Lirong, Zhang Yutong, Yao Guofeng, Ye Jing, Lu Shulin, Zhou Lei, Yang Cheng, Luo Dezhong, Yao Increased Insular Connectivity and Enhanced Empathic Ability Associated with Dance/Music Training |
title | Increased Insular Connectivity and Enhanced Empathic Ability Associated with Dance/Music Training |
title_full | Increased Insular Connectivity and Enhanced Empathic Ability Associated with Dance/Music Training |
title_fullStr | Increased Insular Connectivity and Enhanced Empathic Ability Associated with Dance/Music Training |
title_full_unstemmed | Increased Insular Connectivity and Enhanced Empathic Ability Associated with Dance/Music Training |
title_short | Increased Insular Connectivity and Enhanced Empathic Ability Associated with Dance/Music Training |
title_sort | increased insular connectivity and enhanced empathic ability associated with dance/music training |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6526550/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31198419 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/9693109 |
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