The neuroscience of empathy

AA Marsh - Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Empathy for pain requires simulation via networks involved in experienced
pain.•Distinct networks support empathy for distinct phenomena like pain, pleasure, and …

Interaction of empathy and culture: a review

PY Jami, DI Walker, B Mansouri - Current Psychology, 2024 - Springer
Using a scoping review technique, we provide a comprehensive overview of empathy
definitions by highlighting the multidimensional nature of empathy. Drawing from multiple …

Meta-analysis of ERP investigations of pain empathy underlines methodological issues in ERP research

MP Coll - Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Empathy has received considerable attention from the field of cognitive and social
neuroscience. A significant portion of these studies used the event-related potential (ERP) …

The linkage between first‐hand pain sensitivity and empathy for others' pain: Attention matters

X Li, Y Liu, Q Ye, X Lu, W Peng - Human Brain Mapping, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Many studies suggested shared psychological and neural representations for first‐hand
physical pain and empathy for others' pain, both of which depend strongly upon top–down …

Breath-focused mindfulness alters early and late components during emotion regulation

W Zhang, Y Ouyang, F Tang, J Chen, H Li - Brain and Cognition, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Breath-focused mindfulness (BFM), which induces changes in brain structure and
function, is applied in the clinical treatment of mental disorders as a method to regulate one's …

[HTML][HTML] The role of external factors in affect-sharing and their neural bases

RS Gamble, JD Henry, J Decety, EJ Vanman - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Affect-sharing, the ability to vicariously feel another person's emotions, is the primary
component of empathy that is typically thought to rely on the observer's capacity to feel the …

Scarcity mindset reduces empathic responses to others' pain: the behavioral and neural evidence

W Li, J Meng, F Cui - Social Cognitive and Affective …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Resource scarcity pervades our life. A scarcity mindset triggered by perceiving insufficient
resources has been proven to influence our cognition and behaviors, yet it remains …

Impaired empathy processing in individuals with internet addiction disorder: An event-related potential study

C Jiao, T Wang, X Peng, F Cui - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Internet addiction disorder (IAD) is associated with deficits in social communication and
avoidance of social contact. It has been hypothesized that people with IAD may have an …

Neural variability quenching during decision-making: neural individuality and its prestimulus complexity

A Wolff, L Yao, J Gomez-Pilar, M Shoaran, N Jiang… - NeuroImage, 2019 - Elsevier
The spontaneous activity of the brain interacts with stimulus-induced activity which is
manifested in event-related amplitude and its trial-to-trial variability (TTV). TTV describes the …

Interindividual neural differences in moral decision-making are mediated by alpha power and delta/theta phase coherence

A Wolff, J Gomez-Pilar, T Nakao, G Northoff - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract As technology in Artificial Intelligence has developed, the question of how to
program driverless cars to respond to an emergency has arisen. It was recently shown that …