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2020
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Do I feel or do I know? Neuroimaging meta-analyses on the multiple facets of empathy
Do I feel or do I know? Neuroimaging meta-analyses on the multiple facets of empathy
Empathy is a multidimensional construct including affective and cognitive components while maintaining the distinction between one-self and others. Our meta-analyses focused on shared and distinct networks underlying cognitive (taking somebody else's perspective in emotional/painful situations)...
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Personal Name(s): | Kogler, Lydia (Corresponding author) |
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Müller, Veronika I. / Werminghausen, Elena / Eickhoff, Simon B. / Derntl, Birgit | |
Contributing Institute: |
Gehirn & Verhalten; INM-7 |
Published in: | Cortex, 129 (2020) S. 341 - 355 |
Imprint: |
New York, NY
Elsevier
2020
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DOI: |
10.1016/j.cortex.2020.04.031 |
PubMed ID: |
32562973 |
Document Type: |
Journal Article |
Research Program: |
Human Brain Project Specific Grant Agreement 1 Human Brain Project Specific Grant Agreement 2 Connectivity and Activity |
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Publikationsportal JuSER |
Please use the identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.04.031 in citations.
Empathy is a multidimensional construct including affective and cognitive components while maintaining the distinction between one-self and others. Our meta-analyses focused on shared and distinct networks underlying cognitive (taking somebody else's perspective in emotional/painful situations) and affective (self-referentially feeling somebody else's emotions/pain) empathy for various states including painful and emotional situations. Furthermore, a comparison with direct pain experience was carried out. For cognitive empathy, consistent activation in the anterior dorsal medial frontal gyrus (dmPFG) and the supramarginal gyrus (SMG) occurred. For affective empathy, convergent activation of the posterior dmPFG and the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) was found. Consistent activation of the anterior insula (AI), the anterior dmPFG and the SMG was observed for empathy for pain, while convergent recruitment of the temporo-parietal junction, precuneus, posterior dmPFG, and the IFG was revealed in the meta-analysis across empathy for emotion experiments. The AI and the dmPFG/mid-cingulate cortex (MCC) showed overlapping as well as distinct neural activation for pain processing and empathy for pain. Taken together, we were able to show difference in the meta-analytic networks across cognitive and affective empathy as well as for pain and empathy processing. Based on the current results, distinct functions along the midline structures of the brain during empathy processing are apparent. Our data are lending further support for a multidimensional concept of empathy. |