How do we empathize with someone who is not like us? A functional magnetic resonance imaging study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 362-376

  Lamm, Claus ^a   Meltzoff, Andrew N ^b   Decety, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTION; EMPATHY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSULA; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AFFECT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COLOR PERCEPTION; EMPATHY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75749147029     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21186     Document Type: Article

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