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Psychobiological basis of empathy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2003

Jay Schulkin
Jay Schulkin
Affiliation:
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Georgetown University, School of Medicine, Washington, DC 20007 J.Schulkin@acog.org
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Abstract

Empathy represents one of the basic forms of human expression. Empathy evolved to facilitate social behavior. The perception action model, extended to empathy, is an exciting paradigm in which to undertake contemporary cognitive and comparative neuroscience. It renders the perception of events as an active affair, both when watching others, and when performing actions.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , February 2002 , pp. 46 - 47
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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