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SUBMITTER: Thakkar KN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2688758 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Thakkar Katharine N KN Brugger Peter P Park Sohee S
PloS one 20090610 6
Separate lines of research have noted recruitment of parietal cortex during tasks involving visuo-spatial processes and empathy. To explore the relationship between these two functions, a self-other perspective transformation task and a task of spatial attention (line bisection) were administered to 40 healthy participants (19 women). Performance on these tasks was examined in relation to self-reported empathy. Rightward biases in line bisection correlated positively with trait-level self-report ...[more]