Cry for her or cry with her: Context-dependent dissociation of two modes of cinematic empathy reflected in network cohesion dynamics

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 30-38

  Raz, Gal ^a,b   Jacob, Yael ^a,b   Gonen, Tal ^a,b   Winetraub, Yonatan ^a,b   Flash, Tamar ^c   Soreq, Eyal ^a,b,d   Hendler, Talma ^a,b  

^a Wohl institute for Advanced Imaging   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^d Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design   (Israel)

Author keywords

Embodied simulation; Emotion regulation; Functional connectivity; Network dynamics; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CRYING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBODIED SIMULATION; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; EMPATHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETWORK DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; THEORY OF MIND; VASCULARIZATION;

EMBODIED SIMULATION; EMOTION REGULATION; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; NETWORK DYNAMICS; THEORY OF MIND;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CRYING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); OXYGEN; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84891310745     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nst052     Document Type: Article

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