Neural activity during social signal perception correlates with self-reported empathy.
Neural activity during social signal perception correlates with self-reported empathy.
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DOI：
10.1016/j.brainres.2009.10.006
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发表时间：
2010-01-13
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影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
D'Esposito, Mark
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作者：
Hooker, Christine I.;Verosky, Sara C.;Germine, Laura T.;Knight, Robert T.;D'Esposito, Mark
同理心是人际关系的重要组成部分，但促进同理心的神经机制尚不清楚。同理心的广义结构包含认知和情感成分。认知同理心包括换位思考等心智化技能。情感同理心由对其他人的情绪状态做出反应而产生的情感组成，这一过程通过模拟或“镜像”来促进。先前的证据表明，心智化任务涉及神经网络，其中包括颞顶交界处、颞上沟和内侧前额叶皮层。另一方面，模拟任务涉及额顶镜像神经元系统（MNS），其中包括额下回（IFG）和体感相关皮层（SRC）。在这里，我们测试了这两个神经网络中的神经活动是否与日常生活中认知和情感同理心的自我报告有关。参与者观看社交场景，其中角色注意力方向的转变会或不会改变角色的精神和情绪状态。正如预期的那样，该任务有力地激活了心智化网络和 MNS 网络。我们发现，当检测角色精神和情绪状态的变化时，两个网络中的神经活动都与认知共情密切相关。具体来说，IFG、SRC 和 STS 的神经活动与认知共情有关。中央前回的活动与情感共情有关。研究结果表明，模拟网络和心智化网络都有助于同理心的多个组成部分。
Empathy is an important component of human relationships, yet the neural mechanisms that facilitate empathy are unclear. The broad construct of empathy incorporates both cognitive and affective components. Cognitive empathy includes mentalizing skills such as perspective-taking. Affective empathy consists of the affect produced in response to someone else's emotional state, a process which is facilitated by simulation or ‘mirroring’. Prior evidence shows that mentalizing tasks engage a neural network which includes the temporoparietal junction, superior temporal sulcus, and medial prefrontal cortex. On the other hand, simulation tasks engage the fronto-parietal mirror neuron system (MNS) which includes the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and the somotosensory related cortex (SRC). Here, we tested whether neural activity in these two neural networks was related to self reports of cognitive and affective empathy in daily life. Participants viewed social scenes in which the shift of direction of attention of a character did or did not change the character's mental and emotional state. As expected, the task robustly activated both mentalizing and MNS networks. We found that when detecting the character's change in mental and emotional state, neural activity in both networks is strongly related to cognitive empathy. Specifically, neural activity in the IFG, SRC, and STS were related to cognitive empathy. Activity in the precentral gyrus was related to affective empathy. The findings suggest that both simulation and mentalizing networks contribute to multiple components of empathy.
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DOI：
10.1098/rstb.2006.2002
发表时间：
2007-04-29
影响因子：
6.3
作者：
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通讯作者：
Gallese, Vittorio
DOI：
10.1073/pnas.0935845100
发表时间：
2003-04-29
影响因子：
11.1
作者：
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通讯作者：
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影响因子：
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影响因子：
9.2
作者：
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通讯作者：
Keysers, Christian
影响因子：
4.2
作者：
Hooker, Christine I.;Verosky, Sara C.;D'Esposito, Mark
通讯作者：
D'Esposito, Mark