Transcranial magnetic stimulation highlights the sensorimotor side of empathy for pain

By A. Avenanti, D. Bueti, Gaspare Galati, Salvatore Maria Aglioti. Nature Neuroscience, 2005

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health, Social Psychology

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Understanding Others: Brain Mechanisms of Theory of Mind and Empathy (2008, background): “NEUROECONOMICS The majority of studies on empathic brain responses 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.,…”
Empathy: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Approach (2009, background): “These studies generally show overlapping activations between the experience and observation of pain in regions associated with the affective, but not sensory, components of pain (but see Avenanti, Bueti, Galati, & Aglioti, 2005 ).”
Attention and reality constraints on the neural processes of empathy for pain (2007, background): “However, recent TMS studies showed evidence for the modulation of activity of the sensorimotor cortex by watching others in pain (Avenanti et al., 2005, 2006).”
The neuronal basis and ontogeny of empathy and mind reading: review of literature and implications for future research. (2006, background): “…et al., 2004; Singer et al., 2004a, 2006; Morrison et al., 2004), subjects were neither required to make any explicit judgment about the feelings of the other person (for an exception see Avenanti et al., 2005, commented on by Singer and Frith, 2005) nor to engage in other-regarding behavior.”
Empathy: Gender effects in brain and behavior (2014, background): “…of the motor cortex) when participants’ motor cortex is stimulated during action perception, compared to control conditions (Aziz-Zadeh et al., 2002, 2004) and that they correlate with self-reported empathy, especially when the observed action has emotional significance (Avenanti et al., 2005).”
Meta-analytic evidence for common and distinct neural networks associated with directly experienced pain and empathy for pain (2011, positive): “Unique effects of the experience of pain Our study has important implications for the debate whether only the affective or also the somatosensory components of pain are shared during empathy for pain (Avenanti et al., 2005; Bufalari et al., 2007; Singer and Frith, 2005).”
Neural mechanisms of imitation. (2005, background): “Subsequent studies of the imitation or observation of emotions have supported the idea that empathy has a sensory-motor, mirroring basis [44–46].”
The mirror neuron system and the consequences of its dysfunction (2006, result): “Other studies support the concept of a mirroring, sensorimotor nature of empath”
Mirroring others' emotions relates to empathy and interpersonal competence in children (2008, background): “…observed in these studies of empathy for pain may indicate that the sharing of affective responses can be achieved without relying on motor circuitry, as suggested by de Vignemont and Singer (2006; but see Avenanti et al., 2005, for evidence of sensorimotor involvement in empathy for pain).”
A multisensory investigation of the functional significance of the "pain matrix" (2011, positive): “Only in later studies the label “pain” was added to the term “neuromatrix”, leading to the current concept of a “pain matrix” (e.g., Avenanti et al., 2005; Boly et al., 2008; Borsook et al., 2010; Brooks and Tracey, 2005; Ingvar, 1999; Jones, 1998; Ploghaus et al., 1999; Talbot et al., 1991; Whyte,…”