Hippocampal-Temporopolar Connectivity Contributes to Episodic Simulation During Social Cognition.

ABSTRACT: People are better able to empathize with others when they are given information concerning the context driving that person's experiences. This suggests that people draw on prior memories when empathizing, but the mechanisms underlying this connection remain largely unexplored. The present study investigates how variations in episodic information shape the emotional response towards a movie character. Episodic information is either absent or provided by a written context preceding empathic film clips. It was shown that sad context information increases empathic concern for a movie character. This was tracked by neural activity in the temporal pole (TP) and anterior hippocampus (aHP). Dynamic causal modeling with Bayesian Model Selection has shown that context changes the effective connectiv

SUBMITTER: Pehrs C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6010422 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature