Feeling the pain of others is associated with self-other confusion and prior pain experience

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue AUG, 2013, Pages

  Derbyshire, Stuart W G ^a   Osborn, Jody ^b   Brown, Steven ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NEWMAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Empathy; Illusion; Pain; Sensitivity; Vicarious

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFUSION (UNCERTAINTY); EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; NOCICEPTION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; REACTION TIME; SELF CONCEPT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 84884683376     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00470     Document Type: Article

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