{"id":2920,"date":"2017-07-08T23:46:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T03:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=2920"},"modified":"2017-07-08T23:46:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T03:46:26","slug":"empathy-for-others-pain-rooted-in-cognition-rather-than-sensation-neuroscience-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/08\/empathy-for-others-pain-rooted-in-cognition-rather-than-sensation-neuroscience-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Empathy For Other&#8217;s Pain Rooted in Cognition Rather Than Sensation &#8211; Neuroscience News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/pain-cognition-empathy-4464\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/eeg-neuroethics-neurosciencneews.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The ability to understand and empathize with others\u2019 pain is grounded in cognitive neural processes rather than sensory ones, according to the results of a new study led by University of Colorado Boulder researchers.The findings show that the act of perceiving others\u2019 pain (i.e., empathy for others\u2019 pain) does not appear to involve the same neural circuitry as experiencing pain in one\u2019s own body, suggesting that they are different interactions within the brain.\u201cThe research suggests that empathy is a deliberative process that requires taking another person\u2019s perspective rather than being an instinctive, automatic process,\u201d said Tor Wager, the senior author of the study, director of the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at CU-Boulder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/pain-cognition-empathy-4464\/\">Empathy For Other&#8217;s Pain Rooted in Cognition Rather Than Sensation &#8211; Neuroscience News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to understand and empathize with others\u2019 pain is grounded in cognitive neural processes rather than sensory ones, according to the results of a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}