Empathy: Gender effects in brain and behavior

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 46, Issue P4, 2014, Pages 604-627

  Christov Moore, Leonardo ^a   Simpson, Elizabeth A ^b,c   Coudé, Gino ^b   Grigaityte, Kristina ^a,d   Iacoboni, Marco ^a   Ferrari, Pier Francesco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contagion; Development; Emotion; Evolution; Gender; Helping; Mimicry; Mirror neuron system; Ontogeny; Prosocial; Sex

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENCE; ANTIQUITY; BRAIN REGION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CULTURAL VALUE; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONALITY; EMPATHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MIRROR NEURON; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PAIN; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CARE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YAWNING; ANIMAL; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84912027738     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.09.001     Document Type: Review

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