It’s no surprise our level of empathy impacts how we process social interactions with other people. But how might empathy affect the way we process music?
That’s the question addressed in a first-of-its-kind study published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. The results showed that high-empathy people not only got more pleasure from listening to music, but also experienced more activity in brain regions associated with social interactions and rewards. Click here to read more…