Cognitive control: exploring the causal role of the rTPJ in empathy for pain mediated by contextual information.

Empathy determines our emotional and social lives. Research has recognized the role of the right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ) in social cognition; however, there is less direct causal evidence for its involvement in empathic responses to pain, which is typically attributed to simulation mechanisms. Given the rTPJ's role in processing false beliefs and contextual information during social scenarios, we hypothesized that empathic responses to another person's pain depend on the rTPJ if participants are given information about people's intentions, engaging mentalizing mechanisms alongside simulative ones.

Dissociative-Traumatic Dimension and Triple Network: An EEG Functional Connectivity Study in a Sample of University Students.

Aims: We investigated the association among triple network electroencephalographic (EEG) functional connectivity, dissociative symptoms, and childhood trauma (CT) in a sample of university students.

Sampling And Methods: Seventy-six participants (30 males and 46 females; mean age 22.12 ± 2.