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Hence, the significant correlations in regions involved in affective-motivational as well as in motor processing with emotional contagion suggest that activation in these areas might be related to more bottom-up driven processes, such as motor resonance and affective sharing.
Although early precursors of affective sharing and self-other distinction appear to be present from birth, recent findings also suggest that even higher-order components of empathy such as perspective-taking and emotion regulation demonstrate signs of development during infancy.
As for activation reductions in the affective sharing network, the whole-brain and the ROI analyses suggest that all conditions triggered similar neural responses in the anterior insula and in MCC/ACC.
On the other hand, the BEES [52] assesses the tendency to vicariously experience both positive and negative emotions of others, and thus could provide a more specific measure of affective sharing.
Interestingly, this study neither revealed significant signal changes in sensory areas nor in areas thought to be part of the network supporting affective sharing (anterior insula and aMCC; however, activation in a more rostral part of the cingulate cortex was modulated by appraisal).
More specifically, the neurotopographical overlap between morality and empathy disfavors a role of affective sharing during moral decisions.
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Affective empathy refers to an affective response that is elicited by the perceived, imagined, or inferred affective state of another person, which has also been called affect sharing or affective responsiveness.
Affective regulation is usually acquired in the first childrearing experiences, when children learn how to name and express their affects, sharing them with their primary caregiver, who reflects their emotional expressions in playful interactions [1, 37].
Adoption openness communication is not simply the exchange of information but rather that of adoption related affective attunement, sharing, acceptance, emotional expression and coconstruction of meanings (Brodzinsky, 2005, 2006).
Children with ASDs often show substantial social relational problems when compared to typically developing children, because they have difficulty sharing affective experiences or understanding the perspective of others, which is important for social reciprocity and the development of friendships [ 6].
Singer et al. [3] interpreted these findings as humans sharing the affective or emotional aspect of pain with others, but not the physical sensation of pain.
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