Neural substrates underlying intentional empathy

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 135-144

  de Greck, Moritz ^a   Wang, Gang ^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

Brain imaging; Empathy; fMRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84857021627     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsq093     Document Type: Article

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