Vicarious responses to pain in anterior cingulate cortex: Is empathy a multisensory issue?

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 270-278

  Morrison, India ^a   Lloyd, Donna ^b   Di Pellegrino, Giuseppe ^c   Roberts, Neil ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMPATHY; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 4444289928     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/CABN.4.2.270     Document Type: Conference Paper

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