Attention and reality constraints on the neural processes of empathy for pain

By Xiaosi Gu, Shihui Han. NeuroImage, 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology, Social Psychology

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Physicians down-regulate their pain empathy response: An event-related brain potential study (2010, background): “Previous neuroimaging work showed that the perception of pain in others can be modulated by a host of factors including attentional demands (Fan and Han, 2008; Gu and Han, 2007), social relationship between individuals (Singer et al.”
Anterior Insular Cortex and Emotional Awareness (2013, neutral): “…posterior-to-anterior gradient in the insular cortex has been proposed, in which physical features of interoception are processed in the posterior insula and the integration of interoception with cognitive and motivational information in the AIC, and the right AIC serves a more dominant role than…”
The neural basis of empathy. (2012, background): “Moreover, there is also some, albeit less consistent, evidence for a modulation through other factors, including attention (Gu & Han 2007, but also see Avenanti et al. 2006 and Gu et al. 2010), neuropeptides such as oxytocin (Riem et al. 2011, but also see Singer et al. 2008), and perspective…”
Meta-analytic evidence for common and distinct neural networks associated with directly experienced pain and empathy for pain (2011, neutral): “…reported that responses in AI and aMCC emerge only when participants are actively attending to or imagining the affect of the targets, while responses in this network are absent when attention is focused on features of the stimuli not related to target affect (Gu and Han, 2007; Lammet al., 2010).”
Exploring the neural correlates of goal-directed action and intention understanding (2011, neutral): “Additionally, mirror neuron system responses are reduced overall in response to computer-generated or televised stimuli (Gu & Han, 2007; Shimada & Hiraki, 2006).”
The Social Neuroscience of Empathy (2009, background): “However, when participants were instructed to count the number of hands shown in a picture—an experimental manipulation that was devised to distract their attention from the inflicted pain—no activation in insular or cingulate cortices was observed (Gu & Han 2007).”
Understanding Others: Brain Mechanisms of Theory of Mind and Empathy (2008, background): “…have, however, been conducted in the domain of pain (Avenanti et al., 2005, 2006; Botvinick et al., 2005; Bufalari et al., 2007; Cheng et al., 2007; Gu and Han, 2007; Jackson et al., 2005, 2006; Lamm et al., 2007a; Moriguchi et al., 2007; Morrison et al., 2004, 2007; Morrison and Downing, 2007;…”
Do You Feel My Pain? Racial Group Membership Modulates Empathic Neural Responses (2009, methodology): “However, the empathic neural responses are modulated by affective link between individuals (Singer et al., 2006) and top-down attention to painful cues in stimuli (Gu and Han, 2007; Fan and Han, 2008).”
Intracranial EEG signals disentangle multi-areal neural dynamics of vicarious pain perception (2024, methodology): “This set of stimuli was employed by previous studies to successfully induce empathic neural responses 21,62 .”