As robots advance from the pages and screens of science fiction into our homes, hospitals,
and schools, they are poised to take on increasingly social roles. Consequently, the need to …

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 …

Interpersonal emotion regulation is the dynamic process where the regulator aims to change
the target's emotional state, which is presumed to engage three neural systems: cognitive …

Empathy, the ability to infer and share others' affective states, plays a vital role in social
interactions. However, no existing scale comprehensively assesses empathy's cognitive and …

Empathy for pain engages both shared affective responses and self-other distinction. In this
study, we addressed the highly debated question of whether neural responses previously …

During the performance of a specific task--or at rest--, the activity of different brain regions
shares statistical dependencies that reflect functional connections. While these relationships …

Migraine is underpinned by central nervous system neuroplastic alterations thought to be
caused by the repetitive peripheral afferent barrage the brain receives during the headache …

Personal and vicarious experience of pain activate partially overlapping brain networks. This
brain activity is further modulated by low-and high-order factors, eg, the perceived intensity …

Emotional egocentric bias (EEB) occurs when, due to a partial failure in self-other distinction,
empathy for another's emotion is influenced by our own emotional state. Recent studies …

Joint action has increasingly become a key topic to understand the emergence of the human
mind. The phenomenon is closely linked to several theoretical concepts, such as shared …