Individual differences in local gray matter density are associated with differences in affective and cognitive empathy

2015/05/22 by Robert Eres, Jean Decety, Winnifred R. Louis +1 · 1 citation
Medicine · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Cingulate cortex #Cognition #Cognitive psychology #Developmental psychology #Empathy #Functional Brain Connectivity Studies #Gray (unit) #Insula #Magnetic resonance imaging #Medicine #Memory and Neural Mechanisms #Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies #Neuroscience #Psychology #Social psychology #Voxel-based morphometry #White matter

paper · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.05.038

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