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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| author | Li Gujing He Hui Li Xin Zhang Lirong Yao Yutong Ye Guofeng Lu Jing Zhou Shulin Yang Lei Luo Cheng Yao Dezhong |
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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 | doaj-art-45c34032ac9d440aab9b357709440b752025-02-03T01:31:42ZengWileyNeural Plasticity2090-59041687-54432019-01-01201910.1155/2019/96931099693109Increased Insular Connectivity and Enhanced Empathic Ability Associated with Dance/Music TrainingLi Gujing0He Hui1Li Xin2Zhang Lirong3Yao Yutong4Ye Guofeng5Lu Jing6Zhou Shulin7Yang Lei8Luo Cheng9Yao Dezhong10The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, ChinaThe Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, ChinaThe Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, ChinaArt and Culture Centre, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, ChinaFaculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UKThe Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, ChinaThe Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, ChinaSchool of Music Education, Sichuan Music Conservatory, Chengdu, ChinaSchool of Drama, Sichuan Music Conservatory, Chengdu, ChinaThe Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, ChinaThe Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, ChinaDance 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.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/9693109 |
| spellingShingle | Li Gujing He Hui Li Xin Zhang Lirong Yao Yutong Ye Guofeng Lu Jing Zhou Shulin Yang Lei Luo Cheng Yao Dezhong Increased Insular Connectivity and Enhanced Empathic Ability Associated with Dance/Music Training Neural Plasticity |
| 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 |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/9693109 |
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