Experience modulates vicarious freezing in rats: a model for empathy.

The study of the neural basis of emotional empathy has received a surge of interest in recent years but mostly employing human neuroimaging. A simpler animal model would pave the way for systematic single cell recordings and invasive manipulations of the brain regions implicated in empathy. Recent e...

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Main Authors: Piray Atsak, Marie Orre, Petra Bakker, Leonardo Cerliani, Benno Roozendaal, Valeria Gazzola, Marta Moita, Christian Keysers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21765921/?tool=EBI