Since the pioneering work of Penfield and his colleagues in the 1930s, the somatosensory
cortex, which is located on the postcentral gyrus, has been known for its central role in …

A growing body of evidence suggests that empathy for pain is underpinned by neural
structures that are also involved in the direct experience of pain. In order to assess the …

The mechanisms underlying analgesia related to social touch are not clear. While recent
research highlights the role of the empathy of the observer to pain relief in the target, the …

A groundbreaking and challenging examination of the social, cognitive, neurological, and
biological roots of psychopathy, cruelty, and evil Borderline personality disorder, autism …

The phenomenon of empathy entails the ability to share the affective experiences of others.
In recent years social neuroscience made considerable progress in revealing the …

In the last decade, the phenomenon of empathy has received widespread attention by the
field of social neuroscience. This has provided fresh insights for theoretical models of …

Why do people go to the movies? What does it mean to watch a movie? To what extent is the
perceived fictional nature of movies different from our daily perception of the real world? We …

The ontogeny of human empathy is better understood with reference to the evolutionary
history of the social brain. Empathy has deep evolutionary, biochemical, and neurological …

Out of all the human senses, touch is the one that is most often unappreciated, and
undervalued. Yet, the surface of the human body, the skin, is actually one huge sheet of …

Empathy describes an individual's ability to understand and feel the other. In this article, we
review recent theoretical approaches to the study of empathy. Recent evidence supports 2 …