People with High Empathy Show Increased Cortical Activity around the Left Medial Parieto-Occipital Sulcus after Watching Social Interaction of On-Screen Characters
People with High Empathy Show Increased Cortical Activity around the Left Medial Parieto-Occipital Sulcus after Watching Social Interaction of On-Screen Characters
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具有高同理心的人在观看屏幕上角色的社交互动后，左内侧顶枕沟周围的皮质活动增加
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10.1093/cercor/bhab435
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发表时间：
2022
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Mitani Akira
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作者：
Hamada Masayoshi;Matsubayashi Jun;Tanaka Kenta;Furuya Makiko;Matsuhashi Masao;Mima Tatsuya;Fukuyama Hidenao;Mitani Akira
同理心强的人会在日常社交中解读他人的心理状态。为了研究他们的社会认知加工特点，我们比较了20名高共情男性和23名低共情男性在观看两个角色之间的社交互动时的神经磁学活动。20个由四个小组组成的连环画故事被展示出来；前三个小组描述了社会互动，最后一个小组描述了移情/非移情行为。同理心高的人在观看社交场景时，右侧枕区、双侧额上回内侧和右后岛的皮质活动增强，这表明他们关注他人的脸和身体，并推断他人的心理状态。他们在观察移情行为的同时，也表现出左额上回皮质活动的增加。此外，他们在左侧顶枕内侧沟周围区域表现出与自我投射相关的皮质活动增加，同时被动地观察共情和非共情的结束。综上所述，这些结果表明，高同理心的人在观看社交互动时会关注他人，并主动推断他人的心理状态，他们在观察他人的一系列行为后，通过自我投射重建他人的心理状态和意图。
People with high empathy interpret others’ mental states in daily social interactions. To investigate their characteristics of social cognitive processing, we compared neuromagnetic activities between 20 males with high empathy and 23 males with low empathy while watching social interactions between two characters. Twenty stories of four-panel comic strips were presented; the first three panels described social interactions, and the last panel described empathic/nonempathic behaviors. People with high empathy exhibited increased cortical activity in the right occipital region, medial part of the bilateral superior frontal gyri, and right posterior insula while watching social interaction scenes, which suggests that they paid attention to others’ faces and bodies, and inferred others’ mental states. They also exhibited increased cortical activity in the left superior frontal gyrus while watching empathic behaviors. Moreover, they exhibited increased cortical activity in the region around the left medial parieto-occipital sulcus, which is related to self-projection, while passively watching both empathic and nonempathic endings. Taken together, these results suggest that people with high empathy pay attention to others and actively infer others’ mental states while watching social interactions and that they reconstruct others’ mental states and intentions through self-projection after watching a sequence of others’ behaviors.