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The neural basis of emotional generalization in empathy

2025-10-19

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> The essence of empathy is generalization of emotion across persons. Here, we leverage recent theoretical advances in the neuroscience of generalization to help us understand empathy. We measured brain activity in human neurosurgical patients performing two tasks, one focused on identifying their own emotional response and one identifying emotional responses in others. We quantified the represent...

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Literature Corpus work: 3bd17d0f-ce58-5f17-bc01-b5603a626060
DOI: 10.1101/2025.10.18.683207

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