Functional imaging of face and hand imitation: towards a motor theory of empathy

By Kenneth Leslie, Scott H. Johnson-Frey, Scott T. Grafton. NeuroImage, 2004

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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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].”
Brain regions with mirror properties: a meta-analysis of 125 human fMRI studies. (2012, background): “…al., 2005; Tettamanti et al., 2005), somatosensation (e.g., Keysers et al., 2004; Schaefer et al. 2009), vision only (e.g., Molnar-Szakacs et al., 2006; Newman-Norlund et al., 2010); as well as tasks employing stimuli with emotional (affective) content (e.g., Carr et al. 2003; Leslie et al., 2004).”
Mirror Neuron and Theory of Mind Mechanisms Involved in Face-to-Face Interactions: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Approach to Empathy (2007, background): “... present study is the first to report activation of the inferior frontal cortex (including BA 44/45) in a task where subjects explicitly reflected either on their own or someone else’s emotional state (represented by our stimulus materials showing emotional facial expressions), in the absence of ”
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 perceptio”
Cerebellum and nonmotor function. (2009, background): “However, there is some evidence that the cerebellum may be important as well (Fuentes & Bastian 2007, Leslie 2004).”
Somatosensation in social perception (2010, result): “Experiments that have examined the neural structures involved in both the observation and execution of dynamic facial expressions are in agreement that, akin to observing hand actions, observing the facial expressions of others vicariously activates ventral sectors of BA2 and/or SII that are involve”
Is emotional contagion special? An fMRI study on neural systems for affective and cognitive empathy (2008, background): “empathy may be based on so-called mirroring systems, that is, automatic activation of the motor representations of the observed actions (Carr et al., 2003; Leslie et al., 2004; Wild et al., 2003), which helps us to understand others' mental states via simulation.”
Mirroring others' emotions relates to empathy and interpersonal competence in children (2008, background): “Although this contrast was used to maintain consistency with previously published literature in the field (Carr et al., 2003; Dapretto et al., 2006; Iacoboni et al., 1999; Leslie et al., 2004), when the reported analyses were re-run comparing emotional expressions vs.”
Reduced functional connectivity between V1 and inferior frontal cortex associated with visuomotor performance in autism (2005, background): “, the presumed frontal site of mirror neurons, is crucially involved in imitation (Heiser et al., 2003; Iacoboni et al., 1999; Koski et al., 2003; Leslie et al., 2004).”