Empathic control through coordinated interaction of amygdala, theory of mind and extended pain matrix brain regions

Brain regions in the “pain matrix”, can be activated by observing or reading about others in physical pain. In previous research, we found that reading stories about others' emotional suffering, by contrast, recruits a different group of brain regions mostly associated with thinking about other...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bruneau, Emile Gabriel, Jacoby, Nir, Saxe, Rebecca R.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103545
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2377-1791