Their pain is not our pain: Brain and autonomic correlates of empathic resonance with the pain of same and different race individuals

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3168-3181

  Azevedo, Ruben T ^a,b   Macaluso, Emiliano ^b   Avenanti, Alessio ^b,c,d   Santangelo, Valerio ^b,e   Cazzato, Valentina ^a,b   Aglioti, Salvatore Maria ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d Polo Scientifico Didattico di Cesena   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autonomic; Categorization; Empathy; FMRI; Insula; Pupil dilation; Racial bias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN; CAUCASIAN; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; INSULA; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; MYDRIASIS; NEGRO; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PAIN; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AUTONOMIC; CATEGORIZATION; EMPATHY; FMRI; INSULA; PUPIL DILATION; RACIAL BIAS;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMPATHY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; OXYGEN; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PUPIL; RACISM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886241203     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22133     Document Type: Article

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