This chapter revolves around the phenomena and neural mechanisms underlying the human capability to empathize with the actions, emotions, and feelings of other individuals. Special attention is paid to the neural activity induced by observation and imagination of others' pain. It will be shown that representing others' pain brings about the activation of neural structures largely overlapping with those activated during the experience of pain on oneself and that neural structures involved in both emotional and sensorimotor processing may be recruited during empathy for pain.

The sensorimotor side of empathy / Avenanti A.; Aglioti S.M.. - STAMPA. - (2006), pp. 235-256. [10.1007/88-470-0550-7_10]

The sensorimotor side of empathy

AVENANTI, ALESSIO;
2006

Abstract

This chapter revolves around the phenomena and neural mechanisms underlying the human capability to empathize with the actions, emotions, and feelings of other individuals. Special attention is paid to the neural activity induced by observation and imagination of others' pain. It will be shown that representing others' pain brings about the activation of neural structures largely overlapping with those activated during the experience of pain on oneself and that neural structures involved in both emotional and sensorimotor processing may be recruited during empathy for pain.
2006
Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience
235
256
The sensorimotor side of empathy / Avenanti A.; Aglioti S.M.. - STAMPA. - (2006), pp. 235-256. [10.1007/88-470-0550-7_10]
Avenanti A.; Aglioti S.M.
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