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The association between ballroom dance training and empathic concern: Behavioral and brain evidence

Dance is unique in that it is a sport and an art simultaneously. Beyond improving sensorimotor functions, dance training could benefit high‐level emotional and cognitive functions. Duo dances also confer the possibility for dancers to develop the abilities to recognize, understand, and share the tho...

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Autores principales: Wu, Xiao, Lu, Xuejing, Zhang, Huijuan, Wang, Xiao, Kong, Yazhuo, Hu, Li
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9842917/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35972315
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26042
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author Wu, Xiao
Lu, Xuejing
Zhang, Huijuan
Wang, Xiao
Kong, Yazhuo
Hu, Li
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Lu, Xuejing
Zhang, Huijuan
Wang, Xiao
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Hu, Li
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description Dance is unique in that it is a sport and an art simultaneously. Beyond improving sensorimotor functions, dance training could benefit high‐level emotional and cognitive functions. Duo dances also confer the possibility for dancers to develop the abilities to recognize, understand, and share the thoughts and feelings of their dance partners during the long‐term dance training. To test this possibility, we collected high‐resolution structural and resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data from 43 expert‐level ballroom dancers (a model of long‐term exposure to duo dance training) and 40 age‐matched and sex‐matched nondancers, and measured their empathic ability using a self‐report trait empathy scale. We found that ballroom dancers showed higher scores of empathic concern (EC) than controls. The EC scores were positively correlated with years with dance partners but negatively correlated with the number of dance partners for ballroom dancers. These behavioral results were supported by the structural and functional MRI data. Structurally, we observed that the gray matter volumes in the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and EC scores were positively correlated. Functionally, the connectivity between ACC and occipital gyrus was positively correlated with both EC scores and years with dance partners. In addition, the relationship between years with dance partners and EC scores was indirect‐only mediated by the ACC‐occipital gyrus functional connectivity. Therefore, our findings provided solid evidence for the close link between long‐term ballroom dance training and empathy, which deepens our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying this phenomenon.
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spelling pubmed-98429172023-01-23 The association between ballroom dance training and empathic concern: Behavioral and brain evidence Wu, Xiao Lu, Xuejing Zhang, Huijuan Wang, Xiao Kong, Yazhuo Hu, Li Hum Brain Mapp Research Articles Dance is unique in that it is a sport and an art simultaneously. Beyond improving sensorimotor functions, dance training could benefit high‐level emotional and cognitive functions. Duo dances also confer the possibility for dancers to develop the abilities to recognize, understand, and share the thoughts and feelings of their dance partners during the long‐term dance training. To test this possibility, we collected high‐resolution structural and resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data from 43 expert‐level ballroom dancers (a model of long‐term exposure to duo dance training) and 40 age‐matched and sex‐matched nondancers, and measured their empathic ability using a self‐report trait empathy scale. We found that ballroom dancers showed higher scores of empathic concern (EC) than controls. The EC scores were positively correlated with years with dance partners but negatively correlated with the number of dance partners for ballroom dancers. These behavioral results were supported by the structural and functional MRI data. Structurally, we observed that the gray matter volumes in the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and EC scores were positively correlated. Functionally, the connectivity between ACC and occipital gyrus was positively correlated with both EC scores and years with dance partners. In addition, the relationship between years with dance partners and EC scores was indirect‐only mediated by the ACC‐occipital gyrus functional connectivity. Therefore, our findings provided solid evidence for the close link between long‐term ballroom dance training and empathy, which deepens our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying this phenomenon. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2022-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9842917/ /pubmed/35972315 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26042 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Human Brain Mapping published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr The association between ballroom dance training and empathic concern: Behavioral and brain evidence
title_full_unstemmed The association between ballroom dance training and empathic concern: Behavioral and brain evidence
title_short The association between ballroom dance training and empathic concern: Behavioral and brain evidence
title_sort association between ballroom dance training and empathic concern: behavioral and brain evidence
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9842917/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35972315
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26042
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