Dissecting the Social Brain
Selected Publications
Are strong empathizers better mentalizers?: Evidence for independence and interaction between the routes of social cognition. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 11 (9), pp. 1382 - 1392 (2016)
Cross-modal representations of first-hand and vicarious pain, disgust and fairness in insular and cingulate cortex. Nature Communications 7, 10904 (2016)
Differential impact of emotional task relevance on three indices of prioritised processing for fearful and angry facial expressions. Cognition & Emotion 31 (1), pp. 175 - 184 (2017)
Models, mechanisms and moderators dissociating empathy and theory of mind. In: Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences – Social Behavior from Rodents to Humans: Neural Foundations and Clinical Implications., Vol. 30, pp. 193 - 206 (Eds. Wöhr, M.; Krach, S.). Springer, Berlin (2017)
Dissecting the social brain: Introducing the EmpaToM to reveal distinct neural networks and brain-behavior relations for empathy and Theory of Mind. NeuroImage 122, pp. 6 - 19 (2015)
Distinct neural networks underlying empathy for pleasant and unpleasant touch. Cortex 70 (Special issue: Neuro-cognitive mechanisms of social interaction), pp. 79 - 89 (2015)
Cortisol increase in empathic stress is modulated by emotional closeness and observation modality. Psychoneuroendocrinology 45, pp. 192 - 201 (2014)
Structural covariance networks of the dorsal anterior insula predict females' individual differences in empathic responding. Cerebral Cortex 24 (8), pp. 2189 - 2198 (2014)
Right supramarginal gyrus is crucial to overcome emotional egocentricity bias in social judgments. The Journal of Neuroscience 33 (39), pp. 15466 - 15476 (2013)
Empathy circuits. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 23 (2), pp. 275 - 282 (2013)
The neural basis of empathy. Annual Review of Neuroscience 35, pp. 1 - 23 (2012)
The animal and human neuroendocrinology of social cognition, motivation and behavior. Nature Neuroscience 15 (5), pp. 681 - 688 (2012)
The past, present and future of social neuroscience: A European perspective. NeuroImage 61 (2), pp. 437 - 449 (2012)
Meta-analytic evidence for common and distinct neural networks associated with directly experienced pain and empathy for pain. NeuroImage 54 (3), pp. 2492 - 2502 (2011)
Neural responses to ingroup and outgroup members' suffering predict individual differences in costly helping. Neuron 68 (1), pp. 149 - 160 (2010)