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Stimulus-driven modulation of motor-evoked potentials during observation of others' pain

Avenanti, Alessio, Paluello, Ilaria Minio, Bufalari, Ilaria, Aglioti, Salvatore M.·2006·NeuroImage

DOI 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.03.010

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Empathy may allow interindividual sharing not only of emotions (e.g., joy, sadness, disgust) but also of sensations (e.g., touch, itching, pain). Although empathy for pain may rely upon both sensory and affective components of the pain experience, neuroimaging studies indicate that only the affective component of the pain matrix is involved in empathy for pain. By using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), we highlighted the sensorimotor side of empathy for pain by showing a clear motor inhibition during the mere observation of needles penetrating body parts of a human model. Here, we explored stimulus-specific and instruction-specific influences on this inhibition by manipulating task instructions (request to adopt first- or third-person perspective vs. passive observation) and painfulness of the experimental stimuli (presentation of videos of needles deeply penetrating or simply pinpricking a hand). We found a significant reduction in amplitudes of motor-evoked potentials (MEPs) specific to the muscle the subjects observed being penetrated that correlated with the intensity of the pain attributed to the model. Crucially, this motor inhibition was present during observation of penetrating but not of pinpricking needles. Moreover, no MEPs modulation contingent upon different task instructions was found. Results suggest that the motor inhibition elicited by the observation of "flesh and bone" pain stimuli is more stimulus-driven than instruction-driven.

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Authors: Avenanti, A., Paluello, I. M., Bufalari, I., & Aglioti, S. M.
Affiliations: Fondazione Santa Lucia (IT)
Corresponding author: Aglioti, Salvatore M.
ORCID: Avenanti, Alessio
Bufalari, Ilaria
Aglioti, Salvatore M.
Venue: NeuroImage
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2006-08
Volume: 32
Issue: 1
Pages: 316-324
ISSN: 1053-8119 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.03.010
OpenAlex: W1977104693
Cited by: 254
References: 49
Citations by year: 2025: 12 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 22 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 13 · 2013: 19 · 2012: 13
FWCI: 22.38
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
www.elsevier.com/legal/tdmrep-license (tdm)
Locations: NeuroImage (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna) (submittedVersion)
IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome) (submittedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
Health Sciences › Medicine › Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine › Pain Management and Treatment
Keywords: empathy for pain, motor evoked potentials, motor inhibition, needle penetration, pain intensity, first-person perspective, third-person perspective, pain matrix
MeSH terms: Adult, Attention, Brain Mapping, Empathy, Female, Humans, Functional Laterality, Male, Needles, Pain, Pain Measurement, Video Recording, Wounds, Penetrating, Evoked Potentials, Motor, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

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