The anatomy of empathy: Vicarious experience and disorders of social cognition
Behav Brain Res. 2016 Sep 15; 311: 255–266. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2016.05.048 PMCID: PMC4942880 PMID: 27235714 Patricia L. Lockwood Author information Article notes Copyright and License information Disclaimer This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Abstract Empathy, the ability to vicariously experience and to understand the affect of other people, is fundamental for successful social-cognitive ability and behaviour. Empathy is thought to be a critical facilitator of prosocial behaviour and is disrupted in a number of psychiatric and neurological disorders….