Hearing others' pain: Neural activity related to empathy

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 386-395

  Lang, Simone ^c   Yu, Tao ^a   Markl, Alexandra ^a,b   Müller, Friedemann ^b   Kotchoubey, Boris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Clinics of Neurological Rehabilitation   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Empathy; fMRI; Pain; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PAIN;

EID: 80051640770     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13415-011-0035-0     Document Type: Article

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