Talking about social conflict in the MRI scanner: Neural correlates of being empathized with

NeuroImage

Volumn 84, Issue , 2014, Pages 951-961

  Seehausen, Maria ^a,b   Kazzer, Philipp ^a,b   Bajbouj, Malek ^a,b   Heekeren, Hauke R ^a   Jacobs, Arthur M ^a   Klann Delius, Gisela ^a   Menninghaus, Winfried ^a,c   Prehn, Kristin ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EMPIRICAL AESTHETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotion; Empathy; FMRI; Paraphrasing; Social conflict

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL GYRUS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HESCHL GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INSULA; INTERVIEW; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL GYRUS; PARS TRIANGULARIS; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PRECUNEUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; SELF ESTEEM; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CONFLICT; SPEECH;

EMOTION; EMPATHY; FMRI; PARAPHRASING; SOCIAL CONFLICT;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 84887152927     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.09.056     Document Type: Article

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