Reappraisal and empathic perspective-taking – More alike than meets the eyes

Autor: Carmen Morawetz, Stella Berboth, Nils Kohn, Philip L. Jackson, Josiane Jauniaux
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: NeuroImage, Vol 255, Iss , Pp 119194- (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1095-9572
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119194
Popis: Emotion regulation and empathy represent highly intertwined psychological processes sharing common conceptual ground. Despite the wealth of research in these fields, the joint and distinct functional nature and topological features of these constructs have not yet been investigated using the same experimental approach. This study investigated the common and distinct neural correlates of emotion regulation and empathy using a meta-analytic approach. The regions that were jointly activated were then characterized using meta-analytic connectivity modeling and functional decoding of metadata terms. The results revealed convergent activity within the ventrolateral and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex as well as temporal regions. The functional decoding analysis demonstrated that emotion regulation and empathy were related to highly similar executive and internally oriented processes. This synthesis underlining strong functional and neuronal correspondence between emotion regulation and empathy could (i) facilitate greater integration of these two separate lines of literature, (ii) accelerate progress toward elucidating the neural mechanisms that support social cognition, and (iii) push forward the development of a common theoretical framework for these psychological processes essential to human social interactions.
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