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SUBMITTER: Bellebaum C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7171373 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bellebaum Christian C Ghio Marta M Wollmer Marie M Weismüller Benjamin B Thoma Patrizia P
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 20200101 1
Empathic brain responses are characterized by overlapping activations between active experience and observation of an emotion in another person, with the pattern for observation being modulated by trait empathy. Also for self-performed and observed errors, similar brain activity has been described, but findings concerning the role of empathy are mixed. We hypothesized that trait empathy modulates the processing of observed responses if expectations concerning the response are based on the belief ...[more]