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| Title |
Suppression of Sensorimotor Alpha Power Associated With Pain Expressed by an Avatar: A Preliminary EEG Study
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, July 2018
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00273 |
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| Authors |
Christian C. Joyal, Sarah-Michelle Neveu, Tarik Boukhalfi, Philip L. Jackson, Patrice Renaud |
| Abstract |
Several studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) showed that empathic capabilities are associated with the activation (and deactivation) of relatively specific neural circuits. A growing number of electroencephalography studies also suggest that it might be useful to assess empathy. The main goal of this study was to use quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG) to test whether observation of pain expressed by an avatar (virtual reality) induces a suppression of alpha waves over sensorimotor cortical areas, as it is observed with human stimuli. Not only was it the case, but also the magnitude of alpha suppression was correlated with perspective-taking capacity of participants. Both empathy levels and magnitude of sensorimotor alpha suppression (SAS) were significantly higher in women than men. Interestingly, a significant interaction emerged between levels of individual empathy and specificity of experimental instructions, where SAS in participants with good perspective-taking was higher during passive observation of the distressed avatar, while the opposite was true during an active (trying to understand) condition. These results suggest that: (1) synthetic characters are able to elicit SAS; (2) SAS is indeed associated with perspective-taking capacities; (3) Persons with poorer perspective-taking capacities can show significant SAS when proper instructions are provided. Therefore, qEEG represents a low-cost objective approach to measure perspective-taking abilities. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 1 | 14% |
| Belgium | 1 | 14% |
| Unknown | 5 | 71% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 71% |
| Scientists | 2 | 29% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 107 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 13% |
| Researcher | 13 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 13 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 18 | 17% |
| Unknown | 30 | 28% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Psychology | 20 | 19% |
| Neuroscience | 17 | 16% |
| Computer Science | 6 | 6% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 6 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 16 | 15% |
| Unknown | 38 | 36% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 December 2021.
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