A novel approach to measure brain-to-brain spatial and temporal alignment during positive empathy.

ABSTRACT: Empathy is defined as the ability to vicariously experience others' suffering (vicarious pain) or feeling their joy (vicarious reward). While most neuroimaging studies have focused on vicarious pain and describe similar neural responses during the observed and the personal negative affective involvement, only initial evidence has been reported for the neural responses to others' rewards and positive empathy. Here, we propose a novel approach, based on the simultaneous recording of multi-subject EEG signals and exploiting the wavelet coherence decomposition to measure the temporal alignment between ERPs in a dyad of interacting subjects. We used the Third-Party Punishment (TPP) paradigm to elicit the personal and vicarious experiences. During a positive experience, we observed the simultane

SUBMITTER: Toppi J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9568657 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature