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SUBMITTER: Canessa N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2756584 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Canessa Nicola N Motterlini Matteo M Di Dio Cinzia C Perani Daniela D Scifo Paola P Cappa Stefano F SF Rizzolatti Giacomo G
PloS one 20091014 10
Previous studies showed that the understanding of others' basic emotional experiences is based on a "resonant" mechanism, i.e., on the reactivation, in the observer's brain, of the cerebral areas associated with those experiences. The present study aimed to investigate whether the same neural mechanism is activated both when experiencing and attending complex, cognitively-generated, emotions. A gambling task and functional-Magnetic-Resonance-Imaging (fMRI) were used to test this hypothesis using ...[more]