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dc.contributor.authorHooker, Christine
dc.contributor.authorVerosky, Sara C.
dc.contributor.authorGermine, Laura Thi
dc.contributor.authorKnight, Robert T.
dc.contributor.authorD'Esposito, Mark
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-19T17:12:45Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.identifier.citationHooker, Christine I., Sara C. Verosky, Laura T. Germine, Robert T. Knight, and Mark D'Esposito. 2010. Neural activity during social signal perception correlates with self-reported empathy. Brain Research 1308: 100-113.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0006-8993en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11073733
dc.description.abstractEmpathy is an important component of human relationships, yet the neural mechanisms that facilitate empathy are unclear. The broad construct of empathy incorporates both cognitive and affective components. Cognitive empathy includes mentalizing skills such as perspective-taking. Affective empathy consists of the affect produced in response to someone else's emotional state, a process which is facilitated by simulation or “mirroring.” Prior evidence shows that mentalizing tasks engage a neural network which includes the temporoparietal junction, superior temporal sulcus, and medial prefrontal cortex. On the other hand, simulation tasks engage the fronto-parietal mirror neuron system (MNS) which includes the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and the somotosensory related cortex (SRC). Here, we tested whether neural activity in these two neural networks was related to self-reports of cognitive and affective empathy in daily life. Participants viewed social scenes in which the shift of direction of attention of a character did or did not change the character's mental and emotional state. As expected, the task robustly activated both mentalizing and MNS networks. We found that when detecting the character's change in mental and emotional state, neural activity in both networks is strongly related to cognitive empathy. Specifically, neural activity in the IFG, SRC, and STS were related to cognitive empathy. Activity in the precentral gyrus was related to affective empathy. The findings suggest that both simulation and mentalizing networks contribute to multiple components of empathy.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipPsychologyen_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.relation.isversionof10.1016/j.brainres.2009.10.006en_US
dash.licenseOAP
dc.subjectfMRIen_US
dc.subjectsocial cognitionen_US
dc.subjecttheory of minden_US
dc.subjectemotionen_US
dc.subjectempathyen_US
dc.subjectmentalizingen_US
dc.titleNeural Activity During Social Signal Perception Correlates With Self-reported Empathyen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscripten_US
dc.relation.journalBrain Researchen_US
dash.depositing.authorHooker, Christine
dc.date.available2013-09-19T17:12:45Z
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.brainres.2009.10.006*
dash.contributor.affiliatedGermine, Laura
dash.contributor.affiliatedHooker, Christine


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