| Presentation | 2011-08-06 Empathy in Mental Simulation : Can We Experience Emotional Events through Another Person's Eyes? Manami SATO, Benjamin K. BERGEN, Jennifer WU, Hiromu SAKAI, |
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| Abstract(in English) | This study explores how we understand descriptions of others' emotional states and sensorimotor behaviors. Imitating or observing others' emotional behaviors activates neural circuits similar to those activated during our own behaviors. Moreover, when we understand language, it causes the retrieval of our prior perceptual experiences, which generates mental simulation of the described scenes from specific perspectives. In this study, we investigate whether different narrative modes, which either induce empathetic feelings or depict objective appearances, affect what perspective readers adopt during sentence processing in third-person language. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Empathy / Perspective / Mental simulation / Narrative mode / Language comprehension |
| Paper # | TL2011-21 |
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| Conference Date | 2011/7/29(1days) |
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| Registration To | Thought and Language (TL) |
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| Language | ENG |
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| Title (in English) | Empathy in Mental Simulation : Can We Experience Emotional Events through Another Person's Eyes? |
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| Keyword(1) | Empathy |
| Keyword(2) | Perspective |
| Keyword(3) | Mental simulation |
| Keyword(4) | Narrative mode |
| Keyword(5) | Language comprehension |
| 1st Author's Name | Manami SATO |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Benjamin K. BERGEN |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Department of Cognitive Science, University of California |
| 3rd Author's Name | Jennifer WU |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Department of Cognitive Science, University of California |
| 4th Author's Name | Hiromu SAKAI |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University |
| Date | 2011-08-06 |
| Paper # | TL2011-21 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.111 |
| Number (no) | 170 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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