Differences between empathy for face and body pain: Cognitive and neural responses

作     者：Xiong Li Yinya Zhang Binyang Xiang Jing Meng 

作者机构：Key Laboratory of Applied PsychologyChongqing Normal UniversityChongqing 401331China 

出 版 物：《Brain Science Advances》 (神经科学（英文）)

年 卷 期：2019年第5卷第4期

页      面：256-264页

学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 0402[教育学-心理学(可授教育学、理学学位）] 040203[教育学-应用心理学] 04[教育学] 07[理学] 071006[理学-神经生物学] 

基　　金：supported by the Project Commissioned by the 13th Five-year Plan of Chongqing Education Science in 2019(No.2019-WT-28) 

主　　题：empathy empathy for pain face cognitive and neural mechanisms 

摘      要：Empathy for pain is a hotspot in the field of empathy research because of its specific cognitive and neural ***,studies of empathy for pain can be classified into two categories based on the body regions receiving the painful stimulus,i.e.,empathy for face pain and empathy for body pain,which conveys painful information based on individuals’faces or body parts,*** the existing evidence revealed differences between these two kinds of pain empathy regarding the underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms,the current studies tend to confuse these ***,we summarized the differences between empathy for face and body pain,mainly regarding the behavioral reactivity tendency,brain activations,and electrophysiological(EEG)*** differences probably stem from the fact that the human face contains more emotional information,while other body parts contain more perceptual ***,future studies should identify the distinctions between empathy for face and body pain,to explore further how empathy for face pain is affected by the facial information of others and focus on empathy for face pain in individuals with psychopathological ***,the specific reasons for these distinctions and their underlying neuromechanisms deserve to be further reviewed.