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Cracking the code and flow of empathy

 Coordinatore KONINKLIJKE NEDERLANDSE AKADEMIE VAN WETENSCHAPPEN - KNAW 

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 Nazionalità Coordinatore Netherlands [NL]
 Totale costo 1˙761˙239 €
 EC contributo 1˙761˙239 €
 Programma FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call ERC-2012-StG_20111124
 Funding Scheme ERC-SG
 Anno di inizio 2013
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2013-01-01   -   2017-12-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    KONINKLIJKE NEDERLANDSE AKADEMIE VAN WETENSCHAPPEN - KNAW

 Organization address address: KLOVENIERSBURGWAL 29 HET TRIPPENHUIS
city: AMSTERDAM
postcode: 1011 JV

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Ronald
Cognome: Van Der Neut
Email: send email
Telefono: 31205665500

NL (AMSTERDAM) hostInstitution 1˙761˙239.00
2    KONINKLIJKE NEDERLANDSE AKADEMIE VAN WETENSCHAPPEN - KNAW

 Organization address address: KLOVENIERSBURGWAL 29 HET TRIPPENHUIS
city: AMSTERDAM
postcode: 1011 JV

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Christian
Cognome: Keysers
Email: send email
Telefono: 31610110358
Fax: 316206000000

NL (AMSTERDAM) hostInstitution 1˙761˙239.00

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models    humans    observation    recordings    action    fmri    perception    brain    neurons    emotion    explore    witnessing    emotions    monkeys    regions    empathy    ecog   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Humans are exquisitely able to sense the motor intentions and emotions of others. In the last decade, using single cell recordings in monkeys and fMRI in humans, I have contributed to show that (1) mirror neurons and brain regions involved in the execution of a goal directed action also respond to the sound and sight of other people performing a corresponding action and (2) brain regions involved in feeling an emotion also respond when witnessing that emotion in others. Here, I propose to explore two critical questions raised by these findings. 1) How does the distributed network of brain regions involved in action observation integrate information across regions? We will use effective connectivity analyses of electrophysiological signals in monkeys (ECoG) and humans (EEG, MEG, ECoG) to explore the direction of information flow between these regions to challenge traditional models of action observation. Results might turn traditional models of (social) perception up-side-down by demonstrating that internal models are the driving force of perception. 2) I will leverage an animal model of empathy we recently developed, to finally explore how neurons in brain regions associated with empathy respond during the experience and witnessing of emotions. Through a combination of PET, multi-tetrode recordings and deactivation studies, I will shift the focus of the neuroscience of empathy from fMRI blobs to neurons and their interactions across brain regions. Given the tremendous interest in emotional empathy across many fields, understanding its neural causes will open exciting new horizons for our mechanistic understanding of this fundamental human capacity and the therapy of psychiatric disorders of empathy costing our society hundreds of billions every year.'

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