Supramarginal Gyrus Empathy (IMAGE)

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Supramarginal Gyrus Empathy

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This is a view of the right brain hemisphere: during incongruent experiments, the supramarginal gyrus (yellow) is particularly connected to the dark purple brain areas. The light purple areas are activated through tactile stimuli on the hand.

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MPI f. Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences/Silani et al., <i>The Journal of Neuroscience</i> 2013

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