Understanding others
11 important questions on Understanding others
What is empathy according to theory of mind & what are it's measures?
Measure: theory of mind tests, false believe tasks
What is empathy according to mirroring/simulation & how do you measure it according to mirroring/simulation?
Measurment: Mirror neuron system, perception-action coupling
What is emotional empathy & what are it's measures?
Measurement: Questionaire subscales
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What is emotion according to perspective taking & how do you measure it according to perspective taking?
- Imagining how I would feel/react in situation
- Imagining how other person would feel/react in that situation
Measurement: Questionaire subscales
What is remarkable about the empathy for pain research using couples in fMRI?
What evidence for empathy of pain is supported now?
- Empathy for pain is mediated by simulating pain, not by simulating motor behaviour
- No mirror system activity
- Simulation without motor representations as a linking step
Is empathy for pain fully automatic?
- Fair/unfair actors receiving shocks
Men:
- Less activity in fronto-insular cortex when unfair player gets pain
- Activate reward/pleasure circuits seeing unfair players im pain
What are neural correlates of Theory of Mind?
- mPFC
- Tempero-parietal junction (TPJ)
What tasks besides Sally-Anne task measure theory of mind?
Inferences about mental states based on media (stories, cartoon, interactive games etc.)
The temporal poles are activated in semantic memory. For what concepts is it activated more?
- Involved in theory of mind
The mPFC is involved in theory of mind. When is there more activity?
- Thinking about people vs objects
- Mentalizing (minds) vs non-mentalyzing (physical) judgements
- Playing game vs other person than vs computer
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