{"id":85107,"date":"2018-11-25T20:42:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T04:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/empathy-is-rooted-in-cognitive-neural-processes-rather-than-sensory-ones"},"modified":"2018-11-25T20:42:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T04:42:23","slug":"empathy-is-rooted-in-cognitive-neural-processes-rather-than-sensory-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/empathy-is-rooted-in-cognitive-neural-processes-rather-than-sensory-ones","title":{"rendered":"Empathy Is Rooted In Cognitive Neural Processes Rather Than Sensory Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/empathy-is-rooted-in-cognitive-neural-processes-rather-than-sensory-ones.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a study recently published by researchers at the University of Colorado, empathy is rooted in cognitive processes rather than sensory ones, as reported by the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/cu-news\/ci_30013515\/study-led-by-cu-boulder-probes-how-we\">Daily Camera<\/a>.<\/em> The study found that the act of understanding the pain of others does not involve the same neural pathways as experiencing pain in one\u2019s own body, suggesting that the two are different interactions within the brain.<\/p>\n<p>The study revealed that the brain patterns of volunteers when they experienced pain themselves did not overlap with their brain patterns when the volunteers were observing the pain of others. When observing pain, the volunteers showed brain patterns consistent with \u201cmentalizing,\u201d which involves imagining another\u2019s thoughts and intentions.<\/p>\n<p>\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 Director of the University of Colorado\u2019s Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory and the senior author of the study, as reported by <em>Daily Camera<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/5178671\/empathy-is-rooted-in-cognitive-neural-processes-rather-than-sensory-ones\/\">https:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/5178671\/empathy-is-rooted-in-cogni...sory-ones\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a study recently published by researchers at the University of Colorado, empathy is rooted in cognitive processes rather than sensory ones, as reported by the Daily Camera. The study found that the act of understanding the pain of others does not involve the same neural pathways as experiencing pain in one\u2019s own body, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}