SOCIAL BRAIN LAB! THE EMPATHIC BRAIN Christian Keysers monkey premotor 1. Actions All neurons execution 10% neurons also Observation/ Sound Keysers et...
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THE EMPATHIC BRAIN Christian Keysers SOCIAL BRAIN LAB!
1. Actions monkey premotor
All neurons execution
10% neurons also Observation/ Sound
Keysers et al., 2003; Kohler et al., science, 2002; Umilta et al., neuron, 2001
Mirror Neurons
Perceived Actions translated
motor representation of actions Gallese, Keysers and Rizzolatti, 2004; Keysers and Gazzola, 2007
Human Mirror System Exe
Obs
>
Exe & Obs Gazzola and Keysers, Cerebral Cortex, 2009
How about sounds? snd
exe
•!Hand Actions
•!Mouth actions
+ hand and mouth action exe Gazzola, Aziz-Zadeh, Keysers, Current Biology, 2006
Empathy How well does this describe you 0 (does not describe me well) - 4 (describes me very well). When I'm upset at someone, I usually try to "put myself in his shoes" for a while.
All 16 subjects
Hand action sounds -!Environmental -!p<0.005
perspective taking score
•!
Gazzola, Aziz-Zadeh, Keysers, Current Biology, 2006
2. Emotions Subjects in fMRI scanner with a mask on their face
pleasant
Pleasant smells •!Strawberry •!Mint
Pleasant Disgusting
neutral
disgust
Disgusting smells
•!Butyric acid (racid butter) •!Furfuryl marcaptan (rotten eggs)
Wicker, Keysers et al. Neuron, 2003
Sharing Emotions Observe Emotion
Experience Emotion
=
&
Stronger in more empathic Individuals Weaker in Autism and Psychopathy
0%
Witness
Demonstrator
Exp.
** naive
1)! Behavior witness
Freezing
40%
Witness
2) ERC VicariousBrain -> True Biology of Empathy
Wicker et al, 2003; Keysers et al., 2004; Bastiaansen et al., 2009; Atsak et al., 2010, Meffert et al, accepted
Simulation Model
Shared state social stimulus
emotions action
touch
vision
The empathic brain 2011
Acknowledgements Current Social Brain Lab (Amsterdam) Tenure track 6 Postdocs
Gazzola
Carrillo
Cerliani
McKay Migliorati
Thioux Thomas
3 PhD Students
Cui
Valchev
Suttrup
Collaborators: Bruno Wicker, Lisa Aziz-Zadeh, Vittorio Gallese, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Leonardo Fogassi, David Perrett, Alard Roebroeck, Rainer Goebel, Alessio Avenanti, Michael Spezio, Ralph Adolphs
If you want to know more see ‘the empathic brain’ (Amazon)
Europe – Free your mind! I Lived in Belgium, France, Germany, Scotland, Italy and Netherlands. MC Individual Fellowship,
Parma, 2001-03; QLGA-CT-2000-51181 Visuo-Motor Intergration in F5.
MC Excellence Award (50k!) Groningen, 2004, MEXA-2004 EmpathicBrain
MC Excellence Grant (1.4M!) Groningen, 2005-2010; MEXT-CT-2005-023253 NeuroEmpathy ERC Consolidator Grant (1.68M!) Amsterdam, 2013-2018; ERC-StG-312511 Cracking the code and flow of empathy
Europe – Free your mind! I Lived in Belgium, France, Germany, Scotland, Italy and Netherlands. MC Individual Fellowship,
Parma, 2001-03; QLGA-CT-2000-51181 Visuo-Motor Intergration in F5.
MC Excellence Award (50k!) Groningen, 2004, MEXA-2004 EmpathicBrain
MC Excellence Grant (1.4M!) Groningen, 2005-2010; MEXT-CT-2005-023253 NeuroEmpathy
Fosters •! •! •! •!
Inspiration Freedom Productivity Boldness
ERC Consolidator Grant (1.68M!) Amsterdam, 2013-2018; ERC-StG-312511 Cracking the code and flow of empathy
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