The study of inter-individual differences at behavioural and neural levels represents a new
avenue for neuroscience. The response to socio-emotional stimuli varies greatly across�…

Seeing or imagining others in pain may activate both the sensory and affective components
of the neural network (pain matrix) that is activated during the personal experience of pain�…

Empathy may allow interindividual sharing not only of emotions (eg, joy, sadness, disgust)
but also of sensations (eg, touch, itching, pain). Although empathy for pain may rely upon�…

Facial expressions of pain are able to elicit empathy and adaptive behavioral responses in
the observer. An influential theory posits that empathy relies on an affective mirror�…

Current research on empathy for pain emphasizes the overlap in the neural response
between the first-hand experience of pain and its perception in others. However, recent�…

Pain is intimately linked with action systems that are involved in observational learning and
imitation. Motor responses to one's own pain allow freezing or escape reactions and�…

Neuroimaging studies report that the experience of observing or imagining the pain of others
is mapped on a set of neural structures that largely overlap those called into play during the�…

In the present study we investigated the nature and chronometry of empathy for pain
influences on perceptual and motor processes. Thus, event-related brain potentials (ERPs)�…

Perspective-taking is a stepping stone to human empathy. When empathizing with another
individual, one can imagine how the other perceives the situation and feels as a result. To�…

Recent brain imaging studies have shown that the neural substrates underlying the ability to
infer and share the feeling of pain of other individuals overlap with the pain matrix that�…