S G Shamay-Tsoory

Summary

Affiliation: University of Haifa
Country: Israel

Publications

  1. ncbi Empathy deficits in Asperger syndrome: a cognitive profile
    S G Shamay-Tsoory
    Cognitive Neurology Unit, Rambam Medical Centre, Haifa, Israel
    Neurocase 8:245-52. 2002
  2. ncbi Characterization of empathy deficits following prefrontal brain damage: the role of the right ventromedial prefrontal cortex
    S G Shamay-Tsoory
    Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    J Cogn Neurosci 15:324-37. 2003
  3. ncbi Impairment in cognitive and affective empathy in patients with brain lesions: anatomical and cognitive correlates
    S G Shamay-Tsoory
    Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 26:1113-27. 2004
  4. ncbi Impaired "affective theory of mind" is associated with right ventromedial prefrontal damage
    S G Shamay-Tsoory
    Cognitive Neurology Unit, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    Cogn Behav Neurol 18:55-67. 2005
  5. ncbi The neuroanatomical basis of understanding sarcasm and its relationship to social cognition
    S G Shamay-Tsoory
    Cognitive Neurology Unit, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    Neuropsychology 19:288-300. 2005
  6. ncbi The origins of originality: the neural bases of creative thinking and originality
    S G Shamay-Tsoory
    Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel
    Neuropsychologia 49:178-85. 2011
  7. ncbi The neural correlates of understanding the other's distress: a positron emission tomography investigation of accurate empathy
    S G Shamay-Tsoory
    Rambam Medical Center, Haifa 3109, Israel
    Neuroimage 27:468-72. 2005
  8. ncbi Projecting memories: the role of the hippocampus in emotional mentalizing
    D Perry
    Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
    Neuroimage 54:1669-76. 2011

Detail Information

Publications8

  1. ncbi Empathy deficits in Asperger syndrome: a cognitive profile
    S G Shamay-Tsoory
    Cognitive Neurology Unit, Rambam Medical Centre, Haifa, Israel
    Neurocase 8:245-52. 2002
    ..These results suggest that impaired empathy in individuals with Asperger syndrome may be due to impaired integration of the cognitive and affective facets of the other person's mental state...
  2. ncbi Characterization of empathy deficits following prefrontal brain damage: the role of the right ventromedial prefrontal cortex
    S G Shamay-Tsoory
    Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    J Cogn Neurosci 15:324-37. 2003
    ....
  3. ncbi Impairment in cognitive and affective empathy in patients with brain lesions: anatomical and cognitive correlates
    S G Shamay-Tsoory
    Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 26:1113-27. 2004
    ..The pattern of relationships between cognitive performance and empathy suggested dissociation between the cognitive correlates of affective and cognitive empathy...
  4. ncbi Impaired "affective theory of mind" is associated with right ventromedial prefrontal damage
    S G Shamay-Tsoory
    Cognitive Neurology Unit, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    Cogn Behav Neurol 18:55-67. 2005
    ..To examine the hypothesis that patients with ventromedial (VM) frontal lesions are impaired in the affective rather than cognitive facets of theory of mind (ToM)...
  5. ncbi The neuroanatomical basis of understanding sarcasm and its relationship to social cognition
    S G Shamay-Tsoory
    Cognitive Neurology Unit, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    Neuropsychology 19:288-300. 2005
    ..This suggests that the right frontal lobe mediates understanding of sarcasm by integrating affective processing with perspective taking...
  6. ncbi The origins of originality: the neural bases of creative thinking and originality
    S G Shamay-Tsoory
    Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel
    Neuropsychologia 49:178-85. 2011
    ..Therefore, lesions in the left hemisphere may be associated with elevated levels of originality...
  7. ncbi The neural correlates of understanding the other's distress: a positron emission tomography investigation of accurate empathy
    S G Shamay-Tsoory
    Rambam Medical Center, Haifa 3109, Israel
    Neuroimage 27:468-72. 2005
    ..Our results suggest that empathy consists of both affective and cognitive components and hence may involve cortices that mediate simulation of emotional processing and mental state attribution...
  8. ncbi Projecting memories: the role of the hippocampus in emotional mentalizing
    D Perry
    Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
    Neuroimage 54:1669-76. 2011
    ..It is speculated that mentalizing is modulated by memories of similar past events and depends on the protagonist we face...