The neuroscience of empathy: progress, pitfalls and promise

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Empathy: Its ultimate and proximate bases

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Empathy for Pain Involves the Affective but not Sensory Components of Pain

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The Common Neural Basis of Autobiographical Memory, Prospection, Navigation, Theory of Mind, and the Default Mode: A Quantitative Meta-analysis

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Understanding emotions in others: mirror neuron dysfunction in children with autism spectrum disorders

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