Neural correlates of feeling sympathy

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 127-138

  Decety, Jean ^a,b   Chaminade, Thierry ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Empathy; Intersubjectivity; Neuroimaging; Shared representations; Sympathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EXPERIENCE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; AFFECT; AMYGDALA; AROUSAL; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EMPATHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; NERVE NET; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0037210607     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(02)00143-4     Document Type: Article

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