Neural mechanisms of empathy in humans: A relay from neural systems for imitation to limbic areas

By L. Carr, Marco Iacoboni, Marie-Charlotte Dubeau, John C. Mazziotta, G. Lenzi. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2003

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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How do we perceive the pain of others? A window into the neural processes involved in empathy (2005, background): “Recently, a number of neuroimaging studies demonstrated that similar networks of brain areas are activated by the perception of facial expression depicting emotions and the overt expression of similar emotions (Carr et al., 2003; Ekman and Davidson, 1993, Leslie et al., 2004), the visual perception ”
The Development of Mentalisation in Children From a Theory of Mind Perspective (2010, background): “Carr et al. (2003) suggested that the findings point to an embodied model of empathy much like the notion of embodied cognition discussed by Klin and colleagues in their models of how a theory of mind emerges in early childhood ( Klin and Jones, 2007 ).”
Perceiving fear in dynamic body expressions (2007, background): “This mechanism of shared representations was proposed as the basis of action recognition (Jeannerod, 2001; Rizzolatti et al., 2001; Gallese et al., 2004; Iacoboni, 2005) but also more recently emotion recognition (Preston and de Waal, 2002; Carr et al., 2003; Gallese et al., 2004).”
The neuronal basis and ontogeny of empathy and mind reading: review of literature and implications for future research. (2006, background): “Although relevant, the focus of most of these studies was not on the study of empathy but on the investigation of threat detection, aversive conditioning, subliminal perception , inherent reward values or attentional modulation (for an exception, see Carr et al., 2003; Decety and Chaminade, 2003).”
From motor to sensory processing in mirror neuron computational modelling (2010, background): “Additional functional roles have been hypothesized for mirror systems in the framework of theories of language evolution (Arbib 2005), mind-reading (Gallese and Goldman 1998), and imitation learning by humans (Carr et al. 2003; Miall 2003).”
The Phenomenology of Joint Action: Self-Agency vs. Joint-Agency (2012, background): “Brain imaging results also show that mirror regions in humans may be associated with imitation and language (Carr et al., 2003; Fadiga et al., 2002; Iacoboni et al., 1999; Skipper et al., 2005).”
Too real for comfort? Uncanny responses to computer generated faces (2009, background): “While the ability to understand the intentions of others is a key element of empathy, other shared circuits enable us to experience the emotions of others more directly (Preston & Waal, 2002; Carr, Iacoboni, Dubeau, Mazziotta, & Lenzi, 2003 ).”
Functional connectivity of default mode network components: correlation, anticorrelation, and causality (2008, background): “This region has previously been shown to act in concert with the human mirror neuron system during imitation and observation of emotions (e.g., empathy) [Carr et al., 2003].”