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How do we empathize with someone who is not like us? A functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

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Lamm, Claus, Meltzoff, Andrew N., Decety, Jean·2010·Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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Previous research on the neural underpinnings of empathy has been limited to affective situations experienced in a similar way by an observer and a target individual. In daily life we also interact with people whose responses to affective stimuli can be very different from our own. How do we understand the affective states of these individuals? We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to assess how participants empathize with the feelings of patients who reacted with no pain to surgical procedures but with pain to a soft touch. Empathy for pain of these patients activated the same areas (insula, medial/anterior cingulate cortex) as empathy for persons who responded to painful stimuli in the same way as the observer. Empathy in a situation that was aversive only for the observer but neutral for the patient recruited areas involved in self-other distinction (dorsomedial prefrontal cortex) and cognitive control (right inferior frontal cortex). In addition, effective connectivity between the latter and areas implicated in affective processing was enhanced. This suggests that inferring the affective state of someone who is not like us can rely upon the same neural structures as empathy for someone who is similar to us. When strong emotional response tendencies exist though, these tendencies have to be overcome by executive functions. Our results demonstrate that the fronto-cortical attention network is crucially involved in this process, corroborating that empathy is a flexible phenomenon which involves both automatic and controlled cognitive mechanisms. 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.

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Authors: Lamm, C., Meltzoff, A. N., & Decety, J.
Affiliations: University of Chicago (US)
University of Washington (US)
1The University of Chicago
ORCID: Lamm, Claus
Meltzoff, Andrew N.
Venue: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Publisher: MIT Press - Journals
Published: 2010-02-01
Volume: 22
Issue: 2
Pages: 362-376
ISSN: 0898-929X (ISSN-L)
1530-8898
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21186
OpenAlex: W2120445824
Cited by: 278
References: 88
Citations by year: 2026: 6 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 35 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 15 · 2015: 20 · 2014: 19 · 2013: 25 · 2012: 18
FWCI: 29.17
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.zora.uzh.ch
Licence: other-oa
Locations: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (acceptedVersion, other-oa)
Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Empathy and Medical Education
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Keywords: empathy, empathy for pain, emotional understanding, self-other distinction, dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, inferior frontal cortex, cognitive control, executive function, insula, anterior cingulate cortex, effective connectivity, interoception, egocentric perspective, neural basis of empathy
MeSH terms: Adult, Affect, Afferent Pathways, Brain Mapping, Cerebral Cortex, Color Perception, Empathy, Eye Movements, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Functional Laterality, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Oxygen, Pain, Pain Measurement, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Photic Stimulation, Reaction Time, Young Adult

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