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| Type | Conference or Workshop Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Published in Proceedings | Yes |
| Title | Understanding others: empathy and cognitive perspective taking in the human brain |
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| Presentation Type | paper |
| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | No |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Event Title | Inaugural Herzliya Symposium on Personality and Social Psychology: Prosocial Motives, Emotions, and Behavior |
| Event Type | conference |
| Event Location | Herzliya, Israel |
| Event Start Date | March 24 - 2008 |
| Event End Date | March 27 - 2008 |
| Abstract Text | After defining “cognitive perspective taking” and “empathy” we will review the main results of neuroscientific studies of the human ability to understand other people's intentions, beliefs, and experiences. We will then present several fMRI studies investigating empathic brain responses elicited by the observation of others in pain and show how these empathic brain responses are modulated by several contextual and stimulus factors. We will integrate these results with findings on patients with Alexithymia (inability to understand and label distinct emotions and emotional experiences) and Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD; a neurological condition associated with a variety of social and linguistic deficits) to create a deeper understanding of the relations between interoceptive awareness, empathy, and cognitive perspective taking. |
| Official URL | http://portal.idc.ac.il/en/Symposium/HerzliyaSymposium/Pages/participants.aspx |
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