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Personality modulates brain responses to emotion in music: Comparing whole-brain and regions-of-variance approaches

Kendra OudykKendra OudykPetri ToiviainenElvira BratticoIballa Burunat

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Extraversion and introversionmedicine.diagnostic_testBrain activity and meditationmedia_common.quotation_subject05 social sciencesbehavioral disciplines and activitiesNeuroticismhumanities050105 experimental psychology03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineSupramarginal gyrusmental disordersOpenness to experiencemedicinePersonality0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesBig Five personality traitsPsychologyFunctional magnetic resonance imaginghuman activities030217 neurology & neurosurgeryCognitive psychologymedia_common

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AbstractWhether 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.

https://doi.org/10.1101/651133