Empathic neural responses to others' pain depend on monetary reward

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 535-541

  Guo, Xiuyan ^a   Zheng, Li ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Zhu, Lei ^b   Li, Jianqi ^a   Wang, Qianfeng ^a   Dienes, Zoltan ^c   Yang, Zhiliang ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aMCC; Empathy; Insula; Monetary reward; Pain

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REWARD; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REWARD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863512719     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsr034     Document Type: Article

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