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Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Advance Access published online on February 25, 2009
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, doi:10.1093/scan/nsn043
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© The Author (2009). Published by Oxford University Press. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Double dissociation between perspective-taking and empathic-concern as predictors of hemodynamic response to another's mistakes

Matthew S. Shane1, Michael C. Stevens2, Carla L. Harenski1 and Kent A. Kiehl1,3

1The Mind Research Network, Albuquerque, NM, 2Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, Hartford, CT, and 3Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

Identifying another's mistakes requires a basic representation of other's action patterns as well as recognition and understanding of their failed goal-attainment. In previous work, we identified several regions, including inferior parietal cortex and rostral/ventral anterior cinguli (r/vACC), that show unique sensitivity to the observation of another's errors. Here we utilize the same sample to show that participants’ level of self-reported perspective-taking (but not empathic concern) correlated with hemodynamic response in IPC, while participants’ level of self-reported empathic concern (but not perspective taking) correlated with hemodynamic response in r/vACC. This functional dissociation provides strong evidence for separate roles for IPC and r/vACC in the processing of observed errors. IPC may foster a sense of agency by distinguishing self- from other-performed actions; r/vACC may, in turn, promote a more contextually-mediated understanding of the other's failed goal-attainment.

Keywords: empathy; perspective-taking; error-monitoring; cingulate; inferior parietal cortex; fMRI

Correspondence should be addressed to Dr Matthew S. Shane, PhD, The Mind Research Network,1101 Yale Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, NM, 87106, USA. E-mail: mshane{at}mrn.org

Received July 21, 2008. Accepted October 25, 2008.


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