Somatic and vicarious pain are represented by dissociable multivariate brain patterns
Understanding how humans represent others’ pain is critical for understanding pro-social behavior. ‘Shared experience’ theories propose common brain representations for somatic and vicarious pain, but other evidence suggests that specialized circuits are required to experience others’ suffering. Com...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2016-06-01
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| Series: | eLife |
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| Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/15166 |