Impaired empathic accuracy following damage to the left hemisphere

Jospe, Karine; Genzer, Shir; Mansano, Lihi; Ong, Desmond C.; Zaki, Jamil; Soroker, Nachum

doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108380

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“…Furthermore, though the left lateralization of activation in M1 was consistent with the (right) hand making the ratings, the positive clusters in S1 and the PHG were ipsilateral to the ratings-hand, suggesting this activity is not reducible to task-induced motion. This is consistent with prior research that shows S1 activates during motor imagery and empathy (Blakemore et (Genzer et al, 2022;Jospe et al, 2020Jospe et al, , 2022. As for the PHG, activity in this region is implicated in episodic memory and the processing of scenes (for a review see Aminoff et al, 2013).…”

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Neural signatures of emotional inference and experience align during social consensus

Reddan,

Ong,

Wager

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Humans seamlessly transform dynamic social signals into inferences about the internal states of the people around them. To understand the neural processes that sustain this transformation, we collected fMRI data from participants (N = 100) while they rated the emotional intensity of people (targets) describing significant life events. Targets rated themselves on the same scale to indicate the intended “ground truth” emotional intensity of their videos. Next, we developed two multivariate models of observer brain activity– the first predicted the “ground truth” (r = 0.50, p < 0.0001) and the second predicted observer inferences (r = 0.53, p < 0.0001). When individuals make more accurate inferences, there is greater moment-by-moment concordance between these two models, suggesting that an observer's brain activity contains latent representations of other people’s emotional states. Using naturalistic socioemotional stimuli and machine learning, we developed reliable brain signatures that predict what an observer thinks about a target, what the target thinks about themselves, and the correspondence between them. These signatures can be applied in clinical data to better our understanding of socioemotional dysfunction.

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Neural signatures of emotional inference and experience align during social consensus

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“…This score is calculated similarly to the empathic accuracy—specific emotions score, derived from the sum of score differences between the participant’s own ratings of specific emotions and the target’s specific emotion ratings (collected earlier; Jospe et al. 2020 ), standardized to a 0–100 scale ( Jospe et al. 2022 ).…”

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“…In the second phase, which included a laboratory session, we assessed participants’ empathic abilities in response to emotional stimuli using a modified version of the Israeli Empathic Accuracy task ( Jospe et al. 2020 , Genzer et al 2022 , Jospe et al 2022 ). In the task, participants view short videos of individuals recounting autobiographical stories, a method that enables measuring multiple facets of the empathic process.…”

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Beyond physical sensations: investigating empathy and prosocial behavior in vicarious pain responders

Ben Adiva,

Genzer,

Perry

2024

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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Empathy, the capacity to share others’ emotional experiences, has been proposed as a key motivation for altruistic behavior in both humans and animals. Sharing another’s emotional experience may generate a self-embodied simulation of their emotional state, fostering understanding and promoting prosocial behavior. Vicarious pain responders report sensing physical pain when observing others in pain. Whether this ability extends to emotional experiences remains unexplored. Using both questionnaires and ecologically valid behavioral tasks, we explored whether vicarious pain responders differ from nonresponders in empathic abilities and prosocial behavior. Participants watched video clips of people describing a negative emotional life event. We operationalized several empathic abilities and responses (empathic accuracy, affective synchrony, emotional reaction, and empathic motivation) based on participants’ and targets’ responses during and after watching the videos. Participants were also engaged in a donation task measuring tendency for prosocial behavior. Findings reveal that compared to nonresponders, vicarious pain responders exhibit enhanced empathic accuracy, intensified emotional reactions to others’ emotional pain, and a greater motivation to communicate with the target. This study marks the first behavioral evidence showcasing vicarious pain responders’ empathic abilities, reactions, and motivation in response to nonphysical pain of others, expanding our knowledge of this phenomenon and its association with broader empathic abilities.

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Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying cognitive biases to emotional information: Latest developments and new directions

Abado

2023

Biological Psychology

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Impaired empathic accuracy following damage to the left hemisphere

Cited by 4 publications

References 62 publications

Neural signatures of emotional inference and experience align during social consensus

Neural signatures of emotional inference and experience align during social consensus

Beyond physical sensations: investigating empathy and prosocial behavior in vicarious pain responders

Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying cognitive biases to emotional information: Latest developments and new directions

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