Culture modulates brain activity during empathy with anger

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2871-2882

  de Greck, Moritz ^a   Shi, Zhenhao ^a   Wang, Gang ^a   Zuo, Xiangyu ^a   Yang, Xuedong ^b   Wang, Xiaoying ^b   Northoff, Georg ^c   Han, Shihui ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anger; Emotion; Empathy; FMRI; Transcultural

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMPATHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GERMANY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL CORTEX; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; INSULA; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SKIN COLOR; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA;

ANGER; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHINA; CULTURE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GERMANY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SELF CONCEPT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855421393     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.09.052     Document Type: Article

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