Journal article
The anatomy of empathy: Vicarious experience and disorders of social cognition
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Empathy, the ability to vicariously experience and to understand the affect of other people, is fundamental for successful social-cognitive ability and behaviour. Empathy is thought to be a critical facilitator of prosocial behaviour and is disrupted in a number of psychiatric and neurological disorders. Research has begun to uncover the neural basis of such 'vicarious experience', which has been studied as a proxy measure of empathy. Together, these studies have identified portions of the in...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Wellcome Trust
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Behavioural Brain Research Journal website
- Volume:
- 311
- Pages:
- 255-266
- Publication date:
- 2016-05-25
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-05-23
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1872-7549
- ISSN:
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1872-7549
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pubs:624997
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- Local pid:
- pubs:624997
- Source identifiers:
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624997
- Deposit date:
- 2016-07-05
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- Copyright holder:
- PL Lockwood
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- © 2016 The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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