Sentence examples for vicarious activity from inspiring English sources

For most of us, seeing someone get hurt triggers vicarious activity in pain areas.

Our main hypothesis was that the psychopathic group would show less vicarious activity than controls for at least one stimulus condition.

First, they point to reduced vicarious activity in regions involved in performing actions, feeling touch and experiencing emotions, that are considered functional markers of empathy, as a possible neural basis for the reduced empathy and antisocial behaviour, central to psychopathy (Hare et al., 2001; Hare, 2003; Blair et al., 2006; Hare and Neumann, 2009).

Accordingly, we do not find that the overall brain activity is 'normal' in psychopathic individuals while deliberately empathizing with others, but rather, that they manage to recruit vicarious activations to a similar level.

This is because our reduced spontaneous vicarious activations (within our region of interest) could lead to reduced personal distress while harming others and our reduced bilateral amygdala activity (outside the region of interest) may then lead to reduced associations between aggression and the (reduced) personal distress in psychopathic individuals.

Our results suggest that psychopathy is not a simple incapacity for vicarious activations but rather reduced spontaneous vicarious activations co-existing with relatively normal deliberate counterparts.

Likewise, in the direct comparison of self- and vicarious pain neural activity, their stimuli differ on multiple levels, engaging distinct brain areas, and are being of qualitatively different feel [ 54].

Research that explores cingulate activity during vicarious pain has reported both shared and distinct activations.

Dux is preparing to bring cases against the BBC, Stoke Mandeville hospital and Duncroft approved school on the grounds that they had "vicarious liability" for the activities of their staff or their agents.

There's a vicarious tactility to the experience.

Research provides evidence for mirror neuron activity in empathy to vicarious pain that is distinct from self-experienced pain.