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SUBMITTER: Zaki J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2708723 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zaki Jamil J Weber Jochen J Bolger Niall N Ochsner Kevin K
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20090623 27
Theories of empathy suggest that an accurate understanding of another's emotions should depend on affective, motor, and/or higher cognitive brain regions, but until recently no experimental method has been available to directly test these possibilities. Here, we present a functional imaging paradigm that allowed us to address this issue. We found that empathically accurate, as compared with inaccurate, judgments depended on (i) structures within the human mirror neuron system thought to be invol ...[more]