Synchronous with Your Feelings: Sensorimotor gamma Band and Empathy for Pain (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Synchronous with Your Feelings: Sensorimotor gamma Band and Empathy for Pain (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2009-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2759-09.2009 (literal)
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  • Betti V; Zappasodi F; Rossini PM; Aglioti S; Tecchio F (2009)
    Synchronous with Your Feelings: Sensorimotor gamma Band and Empathy for Pain
    in The Journal of neuroscience
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  • Betti V; Zappasodi F; Rossini PM; Aglioti S; Tecchio F (literal)
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  • 12384 (literal)
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  • 12392 (literal)
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  • 29 (literal)
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  • 40 (literal)
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  • ISI Web of Science (WOS) (literal)
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  • 1Associazione Fatebenefratelli per la Ricerca, Ospedale Fatebenefratelli, 00186 Rome, Italy, 2Fondazione Santa Lucia, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, 00142 Rome, Italy, 3Istituto Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 00185 Rome, Italy, 4Clinica Neurologica, Universita` Campus Biomedico, 00128 Rome, Italy, 5Casa di Cura San Raffaele, 03043 Cassino, Italy, and San Raffaele Pisana, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, 00163 Rome, Italy, and 6Dipartimento di Psicologia, Sapienza Universita` di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy (literal)
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  • Synchronous with Your Feelings: Sensorimotor gamma Band and Empathy for Pain (literal)
Abstract
  • Neuroscience studies on the social sharing of observed or imagined pain focused on whether empathic pain resonance is linked to affective or sensory nodes of the pain matrix. However, empathy, like other complex cognitive processes, is inherently linked to the activation of functional networks rather than of separate brain areas. Here, we used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to explore the relationship between empathy and functional coupling of neuronal activity in primary somatosensory ( SI) and motor (MI) cortices. MEG recording was performed while healthy participants observed movie-clips depicting the static hand of a stranger model, the same hand deeply penetrated by a needle, or gently touched by a Q-tip. Subjects were asked to rate the movie-derived sensations attributed to self or to the model. For each type of clip observation, we analyzed spectral power and coherence values in alpha, beta, and gamma frequency bands. While spectral power indexes separate neural activity in SI and MI, coherence values index functional cross-talk between these two areas. No power changes of SI or MI sources were induced by observation conditions in any of the frequency bands. Crucially, gamma-band coherence values were significantly higher during needle-in-hand than touch and static hand observation and correlated with self-and other-referred pain ratings derived from needle-in-hand movies observation. Thus, observation of others' pain increases neuronal synchronization and cross-talk between the onlookers' sensory and motor cortices, indicating that empathic resonance relies upon the activity of functional networks more than of single areas. (literal)
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