Abstract：
:Compassion is considered a moral emotion related to the perception of suffering in others, and resulting in a motivation to alleviate the afflicted party. We compared brain correlates of compassion-evoking images in women and men. BOLD functional images of 24 healthy volunteers (twelve women and twelve men; age=27±2.5 y.o.) were acquired in a 3T magnetic resonance scanner while subjects viewed pictures of human suffering previously verified to elicit compassion and indicated their compassionate experience by finger movements. Functional analysis revealed that while women manifested activation in areas involved in basic emotional, empathic, and moral processes, such as basal regions and cingulate and frontal cortices, activation in men was restricted mainly to the occipital cortex and parahippocampal gyrus. These findings suggest that compassion and its moral elements constitute gender-relative subjective phenomena emerging from differently evolved neural mechanisms and socially learned features possibly related to nurturing skills.
journal_name
Brain Cognjournal_title
Brain and cognitionauthors
Mercadillo RE,Díaz JL,Pasaye EH,Barrios FAdoi
10.1016/j.bandc.2011.03.019subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2011-06-01 00:00:00pages
5-14issue
1eissn
0278-2626issn
1090-2147pii
S0278-2626(11)00066-2journal_volume
76pub_type
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