Affective mirror and anti-mirror neurons relate to prosocial help in rats

Summary: Although empathic emotion is closely related to prosocial behavior, neuronal substrate that accounts for empathy-associated prosocial action remains poorly understood. We recorded neurons in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and insular cortex (InC) in rats when they observed another rat...

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Main Authors: Wen-Yi Wu, Yawei Cheng, Keng-Chen Liang, Ray X. Lee, Chen-Tung Yen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-01-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004222021381