Affective empathy (AE) is distinguished clinically and neurally from cognitive empathy (CE).
While AE is selectively disrupted in psychopathy, autism is associated with deficits in CE …

Many empathy tasks lack ecological validity due to their use of simplistic stimuli and static
analytical approaches. Empathic accuracy tasks overcome these limitations by using …

Difficulties in social cognition are well recognized in individuals with autism spectrum
conditions (henceforth 'autism'). Here we focus on one crucial aspect of social cognition: the …

Emotional empathy—the ability to recognize, share in, and make inferences about another
person's emotional state—is critical for all social interactions. The neural mechanisms …

Empathy is a multi-faceted concept consisting of our ability not only to share emotions but
also to exert cognitive control and perspective taking in our interactions with others. Here we …

Lack of empathy is a hallmark of social impairments in individuals with autism spectrum
disorder (ASD). However, the concept empathy encompasses several socio-emotional and …

The understanding of empathy from a neuroscientific perspective has recently developed
quickly, with numerous functional MRI studies associating different brain regions with …

Empathy is a complex social behaviour mediated by a network of brain structures. Recently,
several functional imaging studies have investigated the neural basis of empathy, but few …

Neuroimaging suggests psychopaths have reduced vicarious activations when simply
witnessing pain but less so when asked to empathize. This inspired us to distinguish the …

Recent task fMRI studies suggest that individual differences in trait empathy and empathic
concern are mediated by patterns of connectivity between self-other resonance and top …