Title:
Empathic Effects of Auditory Heartbeats: A Neurophysiological Investigation
Empathic Effects of Auditory Heartbeats: A Neurophysiological Investigation
| dc.contributor.advisor | Leslie, Grace | |
| dc.contributor.author | Winters, Raymond Michael | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Jackson, Melody M | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | McAdams, Stephen | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Walker, Bruce N. | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Weinberg, Gil | |
| dc.contributor.department | Music | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-06-10T13:54:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-06-10T13:54:51Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2020-05 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-04-22 | |
| dc.date.submitted | May 2020 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2021-06-10T13:54:51Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | I hypothesized that hearing the heartbeat of another person would affect listeners’ empathic state, and designed an experiment to measure changes in behavior and cardiac neurophysiology. In my experiment, participants (N = 27) completed modified versions of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task (RMET) in different auditory heartbeat conditions (slow, fast, silence, audio-only). For each trial, participants completed two measures of empathic state: cognitive (“What is this person feeling?”) and affective (“How well could you feel what they were feeling?”). From my results, I found that the presence of auditory heartbeats i) changed cognitive empathy and ii) increased affective empathy, and these responses depended on the heartbeat tempo. I also analyzed two markers of cardiac neurophysiology: i) Heart Rate (HR) and ii) the Heartbeat-Evoked Potential (HEP). I found that the auditory heartbeat decreased listeners’ HR, and there were additional effects due to tempo and affective empathy. Finally, a frontal component of the HEP was more negative in the time-range of 350-500ms, which I attribute to a decrease in cardiac attention (i.e. “interoception”) when listening empathically to the heartbeat of others. | |
| dc.description.degree | Ph.D. | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/64607 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| dc.subject | Empathy | |
| dc.subject | Music | |
| dc.subject | Tempo | |
| dc.subject | Emotion | |
| dc.subject | Sound | |
| dc.subject | Affect | |
| dc.subject | EEG | |
| dc.subject | Heart | |
| dc.subject | Cardiac | |
| dc.subject | Heartbeat-Evoked Potential | |
| dc.subject | HEP | |
| dc.subject | Reading the Mind in the Eyes | |
| dc.subject | RMET | |
| dc.subject | Heart Rate | |
| dc.subject | Auditory | |
| dc.subject | Multimodal | |
| dc.subject | Heartbeat | |
| dc.subject | Interoception | |
| dc.subject | Human-Computer Interaction | |
| dc.subject | HCI | |
| dc.subject | EEGLAB | |
| dc.subject | BioMusic | |
| dc.subject | Listening | |
| dc.subject | Intervention | |
| dc.title | Empathic Effects of Auditory Heartbeats: A Neurophysiological Investigation | |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type.genre | Dissertation | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | College of Design | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | School of Music | |
| local.relation.ispartofseries | Doctor of Philosophy with a Major in Music Technology | |
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| thesis.degree.level | Doctoral |