The Neural Underpinnings of Vicarious Experience

• Main Author: Bernadette M Fitzgibbon (auth)
• Other Authors: Jamie Ward (auth), Peter G. Enticott (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2014
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; synaesthesia; Pain; social cognition; social neuroscience; vicarious experience; Empathy; Personality; Mirror Neurons; Touch
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Everyday we vicariously experience a range of states that we observe in other people: we may "feel" embarrassed when witnessing another making a social faux pas, or we may feel sadness when we see a loved one upset. In some cases this process appears to be implicit. For instance, observing...