Exploring empathic space: correlates of perspective transformation ability and biases in spatial attention.

Separate lines of research have noted recruitment of parietal cortex during tasks involving visuo-spatial processes and empathy. To explore the relationship between these two functions, a self-other perspective transformation task and a task of spatial attention (line bisection) were administered to...

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Main Authors: Katharine N Thakkar, Peter Brugger, Sohee Park
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-06-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2688758?pdf=render