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Neural empathy mechanisms are shared for physical and social pain, and increase from adolescence to older adulthood
被引:1
作者:
Ferguson, Heather J.
[1
]
De Lillo, Martina
[1
]
Woodrow-Hill, Camilla
[1
]
Foley, Rebecca
[1
]
Bradford, Elisabeth E. F.
[2
]
机构:
[1] Univ Kent, Sch Psychol, Canterbury CT2 7NP, Kent, England
[2] Univ St Andrews, Sch Psychol & Neurosci, St Andrews KY16 9JP, England
基金:
欧洲研究理事会;
关键词:
empathy;
aging;
physical and social pain;
EEG;
sensorimotor mirror system;
MONTREAL COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT;
AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCES;
FACE-TO-FACE;
PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR;
MU-SUPPRESSION;
PERSPECTIVE-TAKING;
MIRROR NEURON;
BRAIN;
OTHERS;
MIND;
D O I:
10.1093/scan/nsae080
中图分类号:
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号:
071006 ;
摘要:
Empathy is a critical component of social interaction that enables individuals to understand and share the emotions of others. We report a preregistered experiment in which 240 participants, including adolescents, young adults, and older adults, viewed images depicting hands and feet in physically or socially painful situations (versus nonpainful). Empathy was measured using imagined pain ratings and EEG mu suppression. Imagined pain was greater for physical versus social pain, with young adults showing particular sensitivity to social pain events compared to adolescents and older adults. Mu desynchronization was greater to pain versus no-pain situations, but the physical/social context did not modulate pain responses. Brain responses to painful situations increased linearly from adolescence to young and older adulthood. These findings highlight shared activity across the core empathy network for both physical and social pain contexts, and an empathic response that develops over the lifespan with accumulating social experience.
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