Investigation of Gender Differences in Human Brain Activity evoked by Music Stimuli

Abstract

This study aimed to elucidate gender differences in information processing in the human brain when listening to music. We investigated regions of interest (ROI) related to both gender differences and individual differences by applying representational similarity analysis (RSA) to brain activity measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). In addition, we tested for significant differences between gender and individual differences in order to examine whether differences existed between ROIs related to gender differences and ROIs related to individual differences. As a result, we were able to find ROIs each of which had large gender differences and individual differences, but we were not able to find gender differences as more than individual differences with the present method.