Commentary: Decoding the Charitable Brain: Empathy, Perspective Taking, and Attention Shifts Differentially Predict Altruistic Giving

Vanessa Era^{1

2}, Martina Fusaro^{1

2}, Selene Gallo³

Affiliations

¹ Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of RomeRome, Italy.
² Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Fondazione Santa Lucia, IRCCSRome, Italy.
³ Social Brain Lab, The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Vanessa Era et al. Front Behav Neurosci. 2017.

. 2017 Jun 7:11:110.

doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00110. eCollection 2017.

Vanessa Era^{1

2}, Martina Fusaro^{1

2}, Selene Gallo³

¹ Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of RomeRome, Italy.
² Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Fondazione Santa Lucia, IRCCSRome, Italy.
³ Social Brain Lab, The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Keywords: STORM model; TPJ; empathy; mPFC; perspective taking; prosocial behavior.

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Decoding the Charitable Brain: Empathy, Perspective Taking, and Attention Shifts Differentially Predict Altruistic Giving.
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