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Neuronal Correlates of Empathy: From Rodent to Human explores the neurobiology behind emotional contagion, compassionate behaviors and the similarities in rodents and human and non-human primates. The book provides clear and accessible information that avoids anthropomorphisms, reviews the latest re...
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| Published: |
Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Neuronal Correlates of Empathy: From Rodent to Human explores the neurobiology behind emotional contagion, compassionate behaviors and the similarities in rodents and human and non-human primates. The book provides clear and accessible information that avoids anthropomorphisms, reviews the latest research from the literature, and is essential reading for neuroscientists and others studying behavior, emotion and empathy impairments, both in basic research and preclinical studies. Though empathy is still considered by many to be a uniquely human trait, growing evidence suggests that it is pres |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 200 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), forms ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780128053973 (paperback) : 0128053976 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | QP356 |
| CLC: | Q189 |
| Call Number: | Q189/N494-10 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- empathy beyond semantics / Ewelina Knapska, Ksenia Z. Meyza -- The vicarious brain : integrating empathy and emotional learning / Andreas Olsson, Victoria Spring -- The neural bases of empathy in humans / Claus Lamm, Livia Tomova -- Neural correlates of empathy in humans, and the need for animal models / Christian Keysers, Valeria Gazzola -- Ethological approaches to empathy in primates / Zanna Clay, Elisabetta Palagi, Frans B.M. de Waal -- Mirror neurons, embodied emotions, and empathy / Pier F. Ferrari, Gino Coudé -- The neurobiological influence of stress in the vole pair |