Viewing facial expressions of pain engages cortical areas involved in the direct experience of pain

By Matthew Botvinick, Amishi P. Jha, Lauren M. Bylsma, S. Fabian, Patricia E. Solomon, K. Prkachin. NeuroImage, 2005

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Increased amygdala and insula activation during emotion processing in anxiety-prone subjects. (2007, background): “However, in addition to the considerable preclinical literature that posits a role for the insula in the recognition of emotion in faces (45, 66, 67) and human functional neuroimaging work that demonstrates insular activation during the processing of salient emotional images (68), human studies stro”
The neural basis of empathy. (2012, result): “The presentation of facial expressions of others in pain (Botvinick et al. 2005, Lamm et al. 2007a, Saarela et al. 2007), or of body parts receiving painful stimulation ( Jackson et al. 2005, Lamm et al. 2007b), has elicited similar findings.”
The Neural Substrate of Human Empathy: Effects of Perspective-taking and Cognitive Appraisal (2007, methodology): “This confirms several recent fMRI studies ( Jackson et al., 2005, 2006; Singer et al., 2004, 2006; Botvinick et al., 2005; Morrison et al., 2004), which indicate that ACC and anterior insula activity during the observation of pain is related to the affective aspects of pain processing rather than…”
The Observation and Execution of Actions Share Motor and Somatosensory Voxels in all Tested Subjects: Single-Subject Analyses of Unsmoothed fMRI Data (2008, methodology): “…location and reliability of sVx and proposes a model that extends the original idea of the MNS to include forward and inverse internal models and motor and sensory simulation, distinguishing the MNS from a more general concept of sVx. Keywords: action, execution, fMRI, mirror neurons, observation”
Virtual reality in neuroscience research and therapy (2011, background): “Prior studies have reported evidence of activation of cortical pain centres during the observation of real faces expressing pai”
Being Together in Time: Musical Experience and the Mirror Neuron System (2009, background): “…during perception and experience of pain, and lending support to the theory of shared representations during perception of emotional stimuli (Botvinick et al., 2005; Jackson, Rainville, & Decety, 2006; Lamm, Batson, & Decety, 2007; Morrison, Lloyd, di Pellegrino, & Roberts, 2004; This…”
Empathy for positive and negative emotions in the gustatory cortex (2007, background): “A number of studies have suggested that the insula is particularly involved in the processing of negative states, including disgust and pain (Phillips et al., 1997; Calder et al., 2000; Adolphs et al., 2003, Wicker et al., 2003; Singer et al., 2004, 2006; Jackson et al., 2005; Botvinick et al., 2005”
Mirror Neurons, Embodied Simulation, and the Neural Basis of Social Identification (2009, background): “The mirroring mechanism for actions in humans is somatotopically organized; the same regions within premotor and posterior parietal cortices normally active when we execute mouth-, hand-, and foot-related acts are also activated when we observe the same motor acts executed by others (Buccino et al.,”
Do You Feel My Pain? Racial Group Membership Modulates Empathic Neural Responses (2009, background): “…with this, neuroimaging studies have shown that perception of others in pain activates the neural circuit consisting of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and insula that mediate firstperson pain experience (Singer et al., 2004; Botvinick et al., 2005; Jackson et al., 2005; Saarela et al., 2007).”
The expected value of control: An integrative theory of anterior cingulate cortex function (2013, neutral): “…such as social rejection (Eisenberger and Lieberman, 2004; Kawamoto et al., 2012), a loss by a favored sports team (Cikara et al., 2011), pain experienced by another individual (Botvinick et al., 2005; Lamm et al., 2011), and even the hypothetical death of strangers (Shenhav and Greene, 2010).”
Social cognition (2008, background): “In humans, mirror systems have been identified for emotion (Singer et al. 2004; Botvinick et al. 2005) and touch (Blakemore et al.”
Empathy examined through the neural mechanisms involved in imagining how I feel versus how you feel pain. (2006, background): “Imagination of Self-pain should be more similar to the actual experience of pain than imagination of Other’s pain.”
Dissecting the Neural Mechanisms Mediating Empathy (2011, background): “One study investigated the neural response to pain expressions by performing fMRI as participants viewed short video sequences showing faces expressing either moderate pain or, for comparison, no pain (Botvinick et al., 2005).”
Mirroring others' emotions relates to empathy and interpersonal competence in children (2008, background): “Rather, both feeling pain and observing someone else experience pain have been consistently associated with robust activation in the anterior cingulate cortex and anterior insula (Botvinick et al., 2005; Jackson et al., 2006, 2005; Lamm et al., 2007; Saarela et al., 2006; Singer et al., 2004, 2006),”