Neural activity during social signal perception correlates with self-reported empathy

Brain Research

Volumn 1308, Issue , 2010, Pages 100-113

  Hooker, Christine I ^a   Verosky, Sara C ^b   Germine, Laura T ^a   Knight, Robert T ^c   D'Esposito, Mark ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Empathy; fMRI; Mentalizing; Social cognition; Theory of Mind

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CHARACTER; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 70849125381     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.10.006     Document Type: Article

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