Neuroscientific Evidence for Simulation and Shared Substrates in Emotion Recognition: Beyond Faces

By Andrea S. Heberlein, Anthony P. Atkinson. 2009

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According to simulation or shared-substrates models of emotion recognition, our ability to recognize the emotions expressed by other individuals relies, at least in part, on processes that internally simulate the same emotional state in ourselves. The term “emotional expressions” is nearly synonymous, in many people's minds, with facial expressions of emotion. However, vocal prosody and whole-body cues also convey emotional information. What is the relationship between these various channels of emotional communication? We first briefly review simulation models of emotion recognition, and then discuss neuroscientific evidence related to these models, including studies using facial expressions, whole-body cues, and vocal prosody. We conclude by discussing these data in the context of simulation and shared-substrates models of emotion recognition.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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To What Extent is the Experience of Empathy Mediated by Shared Neural Circuits? (2010, background): “While there is some support for the notion of shared neural substrates between emotion experience and emotion recognition mainly with respect to the involvement of the somatosensory cortex, neuropsychological observations do not support such a role (Heberlein & Atkinson, 2009).”
Dissecting the Neural Mechanisms Mediating Empathy (2011, background): “Indeed, several neuropsychological observations speak against shared circuits between emotion experience and emotion recognition (Heberlein & Atkinson, 2009).”
Meta-analytic evidence for common and distinct neural networks associated with directly experienced pain and empathy for pain (2011, unknown): “This observation has been taken as evidence that “shared representations” between self and other lie at the core of the phenomena of empathy and affective sharing (see also Bastiaansen et al., 2009; Heberlein and Atkinson, 2009).”