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The role of the right temporoparietal junction in social interaction: how low-level computational processes contribute to meta-cognitionJean Decety
Department of Psychology, and Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Neuroscientist 13:580-93. 2007..It is argued that this domain-general computational mechanism is crucial for higher level social cognitive processing...
Physicians down-regulate their pain empathy response: an event-related brain potential studyJean Decety
Department of Psychology, and Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, The University of Chicago, IL, USA
Neuroimage 50:1676-82. 2010....- The speed of morality: a high-density electrical neuroimaging studyJean Decety
Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
J Neurophysiol 108:3068-72. 2012..They also demonstrate that emotion acts as a gain antecedent to moral judgment by alerting the individual to the moral salience of a situation and provide evidence for the pervasive role of affect in moral sensitivity and reasoning... - A neurobehavioral evolutionary perspective on the mechanisms underlying empathyJean Decety
Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Prog Neurobiol 98:38-48. 2012..Considering empathy within a framework that recognizes both the continuities and the changes within a phylogenetic perspective provides a richer understanding of empathy and related neurobehavioral processes... - Putting together phylogenetic and ontogenetic perspectives on empathyJean Decety
Department of Psychology, and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, The University of Chicago, United States
Dev Cogn Neurosci 2:1-24. 2012.... - Social context and perceived agency affects empathy for pain: an event-related fMRI investigationYuko Akitsuki
Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, University of Chicago, 5848 S University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Neuroimage 47:722-34. 2009..Our results contribute to a better understanding of the neural mechanisms underpinning implicit moral reasoning that concern actions that can harm other people... - The blame game: the effect of responsibility and social stigma on empathy for painJean Decety
Departmentof Psychology, The University of Chicago, 5848 South University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 22:985-97. 2010..The present study reveals that empathic resonance is moderated early in information processing by a priori attitudes toward the target group... 
Atypical empathic responses in adolescents with aggressive conduct disorder: a functional MRI investigationJean Decety
Department of Psychology and Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, The University of Chicago, IL 60637, United States
Biol Psychol 80:203-11. 2009..These preliminary findings suggest that youth with aggressive CD exhibit an atypical pattern of neural response to viewing others in pain that should be explored in further studies...- From emotion resonance to empathic understanding: a social developmental neuroscience accountJean Decety
Department of Psychology and Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, University of Chicago, 5848 South University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Dev Psychopathol 20:1053-80. 2008..Synthesizing these two domains also contributes to a better characterization of developmental psychopathologies that impacts the development of effective treatment strategies... - The power of simulation: imagining one's own and other's behaviorJean Decety
Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Brain Res 1079:4-14. 2006..Overall, these data support the view that social cognition draws on both domain-general mechanisms and domain-specific embodied representations... - Who caused the pain? An fMRI investigation of empathy and intentionality in childrenJean Decety
Department of Psychology and Psychiatry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Neuropsychologia 46:2607-14. 2008..These results are important to set the standard for future studies with children who exhibit social cognitive disorders (e.g., antisocial personality disorder, conduct disorder) and are often deficient in experiencing empathy or guilt... - Human empathy through the lens of social neuroscienceJean Decety
Department of Psychology and Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, The University of Chicago, 5848 S University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
ScientificWorldJournal 6:1146-63. 2006.... - The neurodevelopment of empathy in humansJean Decety
Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Dev Neurosci 32:257-67. 2010..It can also benefit our understanding of both typical and atypical development... - Neurodevelopmental changes in the circuits underlying empathy and sympathy from childhood to adulthoodJean Decety
Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, Department of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Dev Sci 13:886-99. 2010..Further, these data provide evidence for partially distinct neural mechanisms subserving empathy and sympathy, and demonstrate the usefulness of a developmental neurobiological approach to the new emerging area of moral neuroscience... - The contribution of emotion and cognition to moral sensitivity: a neurodevelopmental studyJean Decety
Department of Psychology and Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Cereb Cortex 22:209-20. 2012..The findings support the view that negative emotion alerts the individual to the moral salience of a situation by bringing discomfort and thus can serve as an antecedent to moral judgment... - Imagining being the agent of actions that carry different moral consequences: an fMRI studyJean Decety
Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, United States
Neuropsychologia 49:2994-3001. 2011..Results from this study can inform new strategies both for therapeutic interventions for patients with socioemotional disorders and the education of medical practitioners... - The neuroevolution of empathyJean Decety
Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1231:35-45. 2011..Moreover, empathy in humans is assisted by other domain-general high-level cognitive abilities, such as executive functions, mentalizing, and language, which expand the range of behaviors that can be driven by empathy... - In the eye of the beholder: individual differences in perceived social isolation predict regional brain activation to social stimuliJohn T Cacioppo
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 21:83-92. 2009.... - How do we empathize with someone who is not like us? A functional magnetic resonance imaging studyClaus Lamm
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 22:362-76. 2010..Our findings have important implications for the understanding and promotion of empathy, demonstrating that regulation of one's egocentric perspective is crucial for understanding others... - Passive and motivated perception of emotional faces: qualitative and quantitative changes in the face processing networkLaurie R Skelly
Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e40371. 2012..These within-subject effects highlight the necessity to consider motivation when interpreting neural function in special populations, and to further explore the effect of task demands on face processing in healthy brains... - Is the extrastriate body area (EBA) sensitive to the perception of pain in others?Claus Lamm
Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry and Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Cereb Cortex 18:2369-73. 2008..However, activation during the perception of painful stimuli was not different from signal changes during perception of the control stimuli. This suggests that EBA is not specifically involved in empathy for pain... - Preliminary genetic imaging study of the association between estrogen receptor-α gene polymorphisms and harsh human maternal parentingBenjamin B Lahey
Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, USA
Neurosci Lett 525:17-22. 2012..This suggests testable hypotheses regarding a biological pathway between genetic variants and dysfunctional human maternal parenting... - Motivation modulates the activity of the human mirror-neuron systemYawei Cheng
Department of Psychology, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Cereb Cortex 17:1979-86. 2007..Our results suggest that motivation to eat modulates the neural activity in the mirror-neuron system, facilitating the preparation or the intention to act... - Social neuroscience: challenges and opportunities in the study of complex behaviorJohn T Cacioppo
Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, University of Chicago, 5848 S University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1224:162-73. 2011..Examples of how social neuroscience is contributing to our understanding of the functions of the brain and nervous system are described, and societal implications of social neuroscience are considered... - Predicting the actions of others taps into one's own somatosensory representations--a functional MRI studyClaus Lamm
Department of Psychology and Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Neuropsychologia 45:2480-91. 2007..The results are in line with the mirror-neuron system account of action understanding and the notion of the common coding theory that actions are coded in terms of their perceivable effects... - Empathy and pro-social behavior in ratsInbal Ben-Ami Bartal
Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Science 334:1427-30. 2011..Thus, rats behave pro-socially in response to a conspecific's distress, providing strong evidence for biological roots of empathically motivated helping behavior... - Unconscious affective processing and empathy: an investigation of subliminal priming on the detection of painful facial expressionsMakiko Yamada
Department of Psychology and Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, The University of Chicago, 5848 S University Avenue, Chicago IL 60637, USA
Pain 143:71-5. 2009..The results of this study provide a deeper understanding of how fundamental the unconscious detection of pain is to the processes involved in the experience of empathy and sympathy... - What are you feeling? Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to assess the modulation of sensory and affective responses during empathy for painClaus Lamm
Department of Psychology and Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
PLoS ONE 2:e1292. 2007..This study investigated how two different top-down mechanisms - attention and cognitive appraisal - affect the perception of pain in others and its neural underpinnings... - Age-related sex differences in explicit measures of empathy do not predict brain responses across childhood and adolescenceKalina J Michalska
Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago, United States
Dev Cogn Neurosci 3:22-32. 2013..Findings are also discussed in terms of discrepancies in the methods used to assess affective responding and how they relate to the multi-faceted construct of empathy... - Gender differences in the mu rhythm of the human mirror-neuron systemYawei Cheng
Institute of Neuroscience, School of Life Science, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
PLoS ONE 3:e2113. 2008..The human mirror-neuron system is considered to provide the basic mechanism for social cognition. However, whether the human mirror-neuron system exhibits gender differences is not yet clear... - The perception of pain in others suppresses somatosensory oscillations: a magnetoencephalography studyYawei Cheng
Institute of Neuroscience, School of Life Science, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
Neuroimage 40:1833-40. 2008.... - Expertise modulates the perception of pain in othersYawei Cheng
Department of Rehabilitation, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei 103, Taiwan
Curr Biol 17:1708-13. 2007.... - How would you feel versus how do you think she would feel? A neuroimaging study of perspective-taking with social emotionsPerrine Ruby
INSERM
J Cogn Neurosci 16:988-99. 2004..In addition, this study provides important building blocks in our understanding of social emotion processing and human empathy... - Neural correlates of feeling sympathyJean Decety
University of Washington Center for Mind, Brain and Learning, P O Box 357988, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Neuropsychologia 41:127-38. 2003..Interestingly, this network was not activated when subjects watched inappropriate social behavior... - Being the target of another's emotion: a PET studyBruno Wicker
INSERM U 280, 151 Cours Albert Thomas, 69424 Lyon Cedex 03, France
Neuropsychologia 41:139-46. 2003..This result provides neurophysiological evidence for privileged processing when an individual becomes personally involved as the object of another's emotions... - Neural correlates of action attribution in schizophreniaChloe Farrer
Institut des Sciences Cognitives, 67 Boulevard Pinel, 69675 Bron Cedex, France
Psychiatry Res 131:31-44. 2004..The implications of these results for understanding pathological conditions such as schizophrenia are discussed... - Motor cognition: a new paradigm to study self-other interactionsPhilip L Jackson
Social Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Box 357988, Seattle, Washington, USA
Curr Opin Neurobiol 14:259-63. 2004..The role of other brain areas that implement and regulate these shared representations remains to be specified... - The putative pheromone androstadienone activates cortical fields in the human brain related to social cognitionBalazs Gulyas
Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, S 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
Neurochem Int 44:595-600. 2004..These brain regions can be identified as cortical fields underlying other than olfactory functions, including various aspects of social cognition and attention... - Feature uncertainty activates anterior cingulate cortexSzabolcs Keri
Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Hum Brain Mapp 21:26-33. 2004..These results suggest that the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex is important in feature uncertainty conditions, which include divided attention, expectancy under uncertainty, and cognitive monitoring... - When the self represents the other: a new cognitive neuroscience view on psychological identificationJean Decety
Social Cognitive Neuroscience, Center for Mind, Brain and Learning, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Conscious Cogn 12:577-96. 2003..Interestingly, the right hemisphere develops its functions earlier than the left... - What imitation tells us about social cognition: a rapprochement between developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscienceAndrew N Meltzoff
Center for Mind, Brain and Learning, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 358:491-500. 2003..Imitation is doubly revealing: it is used by infants to learn about adults, and by scientists to understand the organization and functioning of the brain... - Leader or follower? Involvement of the inferior parietal lobule in agencyThierry Chaminade
University of Washington, CMBL, Box 357988, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Neuroreport 13:1975-8. 2002..A lateralization effect was also found in these conditions, the response being stronger in the left inferior parietal lobule when subjects were not the agent of the performed action, and in the right when they were... - The functional architecture of human empathyJean Decety
Social Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 7988, USA
Behav Cogn Neurosci Rev 3:71-100. 2004..This functional model may be used to make specific predictions about the various empathy deficits that can be encountered in different forms of social and neurological disorders... - How do we perceive the pain of others? A window into the neural processes involved in empathyPhilip L Jackson
Social Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195 7988, USA
Neuroimage 24:771-9. 2005..This study adds to our understanding of the neurological mechanisms implicated in intersubjectivity and human empathy... - Weaving the fabric of social interaction: articulating developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience in the domain of motor cognitionJessica A Sommerville
Department of Psychology and Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Campus Box 357988, Seattle, WA 98195 7988, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 13:179-200. 2006..This perspective also elucidates intriguing new directions and research questions and generates specific hypotheses regarding the impact of early disorders (e.g., developmental movement disorders) on subsequent action processing... - The neural substrate of human empathy: effects of perspective-taking and cognitive appraisalClaus Lamm
INSERM Unit 280, France
J Cogn Neurosci 19:42-58. 2007.... - Empathy and judging other's pain: an fMRI study of alexithymiaYoshiya Moriguchi
Department of Psychosomatic Research, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Kodaira City, Tokyo 187 8553, Japan
Cereb Cortex 17:2223-34. 2007.... - Social brain dysfunctions in schizophrenia: a review of neuroimaging studiesEric Brunet-Gouet
Service de Psychiatrie Adulte, Inserm ERI 0015, Hopital de Versailles, 177 route de Versailles, 78150 Le Chesnay, France
Psychiatry Res 148:75-92. 2006.... - To what extent do we share the pain of others? Insight from the neural bases of pain empathyPhilip L Jackson
Ecole de psychologie and CIRRIS and CRULRG, Universite Laval, Quebec, Que, Canada
Pain 125:5-9. 2006 - Distinct areas in parietal cortex involved in long-term and short-term action planning: a PET investigationPerrine Ruby
, Lyon, France
Cortex 38:321-39. 2002..These results may help to better understand apraxia at the neurophysiological level... - Neural circuits involved in imitation and perspective-takingPhilip L Jackson
Social Cognitive Neuroscience Institute for Leaning and Brain Science, Box 357988, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 7988, USA
Neuroimage 31:429-39. 2006..These findings suggest that the 1st-person perspective is more tightly coupled to the sensory-motor system than the 3rd-person perspective, which requires additional visuospatial transformation... - Empathy examined through the neural mechanisms involved in imagining how I feel versus how you feel painPhilip L Jackson
Social Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Box 357988, Seattle, WA 98155 7988, USA
Neuropsychologia 44:752-61. 2006..It may be what allows us to distinguish empathic responses to others versus our own personal distress. These findings are consistent with the view that empathy does not involve a complete Self-Other merging... - What you believe versus what you think they believe: a neuroimaging study of conceptual perspective-takingPerrine Ruby
INSERM U280, 151 Cours Albert Thomas, 69424 Lyon Cedex 3, France
Eur J Neurosci 17:2475-80. 2003.... - Abnormalities of brain function during a nonverbal theory of mind task in schizophreniaEric Brunet
Service de Psychiatrie Adulte, Hôpital Mignot, 177 route de Versailles, 78150 Le Chesnay, France
Neuropsychologia 41:1574-82. 2003..Schizophrenic patients performing a nonverbal attribution of intentions task have an abnormal cerebral activity... - Sex differences in spinal excitability during observation of bipedal locomotionYawei Cheng
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Neuroreport 18:887-90. 2007..These findings demonstrate that the human mirror-neuron system exhibits sex differences in spinal excitability... - The neural bases of cooperation and competition: an fMRI investigationJean Decety
Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Box 357988, Seattle, WA 98195 7988, USA
Neuroimage 23:744-51. 2004..In accordance with evidence from evolutionary psychology as well as from developmental psychology, we argue that cooperation is a socially rewarding process and is associated with specific left medial orbitofrontal cortex involvement... - An fMRI study of imitation: action representation and body schemaThierry Chaminade
Social Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Box 357988, Seattle, WA 98195-7988, USA
Neuropsychologia 43:115-27. 2005.... - Gender differences in the human mirror system: a magnetoencephalography studyYa-Wei Cheng
Institute of Neuroscience, School of Life Science, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Neuroreport 17:1115-9. 2006..05). These findings have implications for the extreme male brain theory of autism and support the hypothesis of a dysfunctional mirror-neuron system in autism... - Does the end justify the means? A PET exploration of the mechanisms involved in human imitationThierry Chaminade
INSERM Unit 280, 151 Cours Albert Thomas, 69424 Lyon Cedex 3, France
Neuroimage 15:318-28. 2002..Our results suggest that for normally functioning adults, imitating a gesture activates neural processing of the intention (or goal) underlying the observed action...
Research Grants
- Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience of Atypical Empathy in Conduct DisorderJean Decety; Fiscal Year: 2010....