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| Title |
The social and personality neuroscience of empathy for pain and touch
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00393 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Ilaria Bufalari, Silvio Ionta |
| Abstract |
First- and third-person experiences of bodily sensations, like pain and touch, recruit overlapping neural networks including sensorimotor, insular, and anterior cingulate cortices. Here we illustrate the peculiar role of these structures in coding the sensory and affective qualities of the observed bodily sensations. Subsequently we show that such neural activity is critically influenced by a range of social, emotional, cognitive factors, and importantly by inter-individual differences in the separate components of empathic traits. Finally we suggest some fundamental issues that social neuroscience has to address for providing a comprehensive knowledge of the behavioral, functional and anatomical brain correlates of empathy. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 19 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 37% |
| Spain | 2 | 11% |
| Italy | 1 | 5% |
| Ireland | 1 | 5% |
| Australia | 1 | 5% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 5% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 4 | 21% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 15 | 79% |
| Scientists | 3 | 16% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 5% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 211 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Italy | 3 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 200 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 52 | 25% |
| Student > Bachelor | 27 | 13% |
| Researcher | 24 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 22 | 10% |
| Professor | 16 | 8% |
| Other | 45 | 21% |
| Unknown | 25 | 12% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 89 | 42% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 18 | 9% |
| Neuroscience | 17 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 14 | 7% |
| Engineering | 8 | 4% |
| Other | 27 | 13% |
| Unknown | 38 | 18% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 December 2017.
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#2,464,910
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#1,159
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#24,130
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#189
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