The pain of a model in the personality of an onlooker: Influence of state-reactivity and personality traits on embodied empathy for pain

NeuroImage

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 275-283

  Avenanti, Alessio ^a   Minio Paluello, Ilaria ^a   Bufalari, Ilaria ^a   Aglioti, Salvatore M ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPATHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOCICEPTION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 55349104449     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.08.001     Document Type: Article

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