The article discusses how listening to music with a friend can align both subjective pleasure and brain activity, increasing interpersonal neural synchrony and shared emotional responses during joint listening. It also explains that the social context of shared music amplifies neural processing in reward-related brain regions.

This topic is of interest to psychology readers because it sheds light on social bonding, collective emotion, and the neural mechanisms that underlie shared experiences, highlighting how context can shape affective and neural responses.

Article Title: Shared music listening synchronizes brain activity

Link to PsyPost Article: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.psypost.org/shared-music-listening-synchronizes-brain-activity/

#sharedmusic #neuroscience #neuralsynchrony #socialbonding #musicpsychology #affectiveneuroscience #rewardcircuitry #functionalnearinfraredspectroscopy #jointlistening #interpersonalconnectedness

@PrettyGnosticMaschine my intuition tends toward biology. Cells have stress response mechanisms. It suggests that even without consciousness there is a need to model inside and outside for survival. The stress response signaling molecules are the same as those associated with human emotions. Evolution doesn't invent new things, just reuses.

In biology the system for modeling the world may be the system of modeling self.

#affectiveneuroscience #neuroscience #somaticmarkerhypothesis

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Spearheaded by the unstoppable Leili Mortazavi with Elnaz Ghasemi and Charlene C. Wu , this culminates > 15 years of work!
The findings imply that some #FMRI findings are more robust than commonly thought (with respect to reliability, validity, and generalizability).
Special thanks to the editors and reviewers at PNAS Nexus and for support from Stanford University 's #Neurochoice Initiative and the #ToyotaResearchInstitute ! (#AffectiveNeuroscience , #Neuroeconomics )

Nature (but not urban or indoor) images reduce subjective and brain responses to painful stimuli ( #sustainability , #AffectiveNeuroscience )...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56870-2

Nature exposure induces analgesic effects by acting on nociception-related neural processing - Nature Communications

Virtual nature exposure reduces self-reported pain and is associated with decreased brain responses linked to somatosensory and nociceptive processing, providing new insights into the underlying mechanisms of nature-induced analgesia.

Nature

Intracranial electrical stimulation of the #AnteriorInsula decreases risky choice by increasing loss salience, but of the #MedialPrefrontalCortex increases risky choice by decreasing loss salience (causally supporting #AnticipatoryAffect predictions; #Neuroeconomics; #AffectiveNeuroscience):

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51822-8

Direct stimulation of anterior insula and ventromedial prefrontal cortex disrupts economic choices - Nature Communications

Activity in the vmPFC and anterior insula is associated with economic choice and confidence, but their causal involvement is unclear. Here, the authors show that intracranial stimulation of subregions of these areas has distinct effects on risk-taking, loss sensitivity and confidence judgments.

Nature
@NicoleCRust
Cannon : Still underrated (#AffectiveNeuroscience)
Catharine Winstanley of #UniversityofBritishColumbia updates the #Stanford Neuroscience crowd on how incidental cues promote risky gambling -- in #rats! (#AnticipatoryAffect , #AffectiveNeuroscience , #Neuroeconomics )