Toward a hierarchical model of social cognition: A neuroimaging meta-analysis and integrative review of empathy and theory of mind.

M Schurz, J Radua, MG Tholen, L Maliske… - Psychological …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Along with the increased interest in and volume of social cognition research, there has been
higher awareness of a lack of agreement on the concepts and taxonomy used to study social …

Mammalian empathy: behavioural manifestations and neural basis

FBM De Waal, SD Preston - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
Recent research on empathy in humans and other mammals seeks to dissociate emotional
and cognitive empathy. These forms, however, remain interconnected in evolution, across …

Meta-analysis of neural systems underlying placebo analgesia from individual participant fMRI data

M Zunhammer, T Spisák, TD Wager, U Bingel - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
The brain systems underlying placebo analgesia are insufficiently understood. Here we
performed a systematic, participant-level meta-analysis of experimental functional …

Emotional mirror neurons in the rat's anterior cingulate cortex

M Carrillo, Y Han, F Migliorati, M Liu, V Gazzola… - Current biology, 2019 - cell.com
How do the emotions of others affect us? The human anterior cingulate cortex (ACC)
responds while experiencing pain in the self and witnessing pain in others, but the …

Social laughter triggers endogenous opioid release in humans

S Manninen, L Tuominen, RI Dunbar… - Journal of …, 2017 - Soc Neuroscience
The size of human social networks significantly exceeds the network that can be maintained
by social grooming or touching in other primates. It has been proposed that endogenous …

Neurophysiological and behavioural markers of compassion

JJ Kim, SL Parker, JR Doty, R Cunnington, P Gilbert… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The scientific study of compassion is burgeoning, however the putative neurophysiological
markers of programs which actively train distress tolerance, such as Compassionate Mind …

Imaging empathy and prosocial emotions

C Lamm, M Rütgen, IC Wagner - Neuroscience letters, 2019 - Elsevier
Empathy is a multi-faceted construct with important implications for social behavior. Based
on a selective review of the neuroscientific evidence collected in humans, the present paper …

Somatic and vicarious pain are represented by dissociable multivariate brain patterns

A Krishnan, CW Woo, LJ Chang, L Ruzic, X Gu… - elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
Understanding how humans represent others' pain is critical for understanding pro-social
behavior.'Shared experience'theories propose common brain representations for somatic …

From shared to distinct self–other representations in empathy: evidence from neurotypical function and socio-cognitive disorders

C Lamm, H Bukowski, G Silani - … Transactions of the …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Neuroscientific research has identified two fundamental components of empathy: shared
emotional representations between self and other, and self–other distinction. The concept of …

Neurocomputational mechanisms of prosocial learning and links to empathy

PL Lockwood, MAJ Apps, V Valton… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Reinforcement learning theory powerfully characterizes how we learn to benefit ourselves.
In this theory, prediction errors—the difference between a predicted and actual outcome of a …