How Would You Feel versus How Do You Think She Would Feel? A Neuroimaging Study of Perspective-Taking with Social Emotions

By Perrine Ruby, Jean Decety. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2004

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Attention and reality constraints on the neural processes of empathy for pain (2007, result): “This is consistent with the role of this brain area in perspective – taking with social emotions (Ruby and Decety, 2004).”
Dissecting the Neural Mechanisms Mediating Empathy (2011, background): “For instance, Ruby and Decety (2004) presented participants with short written sentences that depicted real-life situations (e.g., someone opens the toilet door that you have forgotten to lock) which induce social emotions (e.g., shame, guilt, pride) as well as emotionally neutral situations, and…”
Development of the adolescent brain: implications for executive function and social cognition. (2006, background): “Functional neuroimaging studies have revealed that the parietal and frontal cortices are associated with making the distinction between 1PP and 3PP at the motor (Ruby & Decety, 2001), visuo-spatial, (Vogeley et al., 2004), conceptual (Ruby & Decety, 2003) and emotional (Ruby & Decety, 2004) level.”
Reconstructing and deconstructing the self: cognitive mechanisms in meditation practice. (2015, background): “Imaging studies indicate that there is no single neural mechanism related to perspective taking, but rather that differences in perspective (imagining oneself experiencing pain versus another experiencing pain, for example) recruit different brain networks [65].”
Empathy versus personal distress: Recent evidence from social neuroscience. (2009, background): “However, taking the perspective of the other produces further activation in specific parts of the frontal cortex that are implicated in executive functions, particularly inhibitory control (e.g., Ruby & Decety, 2003, 2004).”
Self-referential processing in our brain - A meta-analysis of imaging studies on the self (2006, background): “…Visual Phan et al. (2004a,b) fMRI 12 Evaluation of self-relatedness of emotional pictures Correlation between emotion and self-relatedness Visual Platek et al. (2004, 2005) the distinction between self-and non-self-related tasks (Ruby and Decety, 2001, 2003, 2004; Vogeley et al., 2004).”
Postdecisional Counterfactual Thinking by Actors and Readers (2007, background): “There is evidence that the role individuals play may affect their choices (e.g., Camerer, Loewenstein, & Weber, 1989), their inferences (e.g., Light, Girotto, & Legrenzi, 1990), and the corresponding neural activations (e.g., Ruby & Decety, 2004 ).”
The functional architecture of human empathy. (2004, background): “…were presented with short written sentences that depicted real-life situations (e.g., someone opens the toilet door that you have forgotten to lock), which are likely to induce social emotions (e.g., shame, guilt, pride), or other situations that are emotionally neutral (Ruby & Decety, 2004).”
Social neuroscience evidence for dehumanised perception (2009, background): “The social neuroscience literature shows greater amygdala activity (also implicated in fear conditioning) when participants merely read third-person fearful versus neutral stories about other people (Ruby & Decety, 2004).”
Neural circuits involved in imitation and perspective-taking (2006, background): “This interpretation was later extended to 3rd-person perspective-taking in an emotional context (Ruby and Decety, 2004).”
Distinct Regions of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex Are Associated with Self-referential Processing and Perspective Taking (2007, background): “Finally, the precuneus and the left temporal pole have also been observed to be activated in earlier perspective-taking studies (Ruby & Decety, 2001, 2003, 2004) and this has been related to imagery, autobiographical memory retrieval and semantic processing (Cabeza & Nyberg, 2000).”