Music listening and empathy

Subject: Music listening and empathy
From: Jack Campin
Date: 19 Jun 18 - 07:52 AM

One of those connections that makes sense except you'd never have thought of it...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180612185148.htm

Subject: RE: Music listening and empathy
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 20 Jun 18 - 04:25 AM

Jack, completely agree. I felt it worthwhile to c&p the summary:

"People who deeply grasp the pain or happiness of others also process music differently, say researchers. The study in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience compared MRI scans of low- and high-empathy people. Higher empathy people process music like a pleasurable proxy for a human encounter -- in brain regions for reward and social awareness. The findings may have implications for the function of music now and in our evolutionary past". (Copied from Science Daily).