Spatiotemporal brain dynamics of empathy for pain and happiness in friendship

Although a large number of fMRI studies have investigated the neural basis of empathy, little is known about its spatiotemporal dynamics. Moreover, most of the previous studies on empathy have focused on empathy for pain rather than empathy for positive emotions, such as happiness. In the present st...

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Main Authors: Wang eYi-Wen, Juan eSon, Fengbo eGuo, Zhen eZhang, Sheng eYuan, Stephanie eCacioppo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00045/full