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Representational geometry of emotional empathy in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and in the mid-posterior insula.
Leonardo Cerliani, Rune Bruls, Cas J.S. Teurlings…·Christian Keysers
The paper investigates how brain regions encode emotional facial expressions using representational similarity analysis, finding that vmPFC and mid-posterior insula encode emotion categories and arousal+valence better than arousal alone.