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. 2011 Jan 1;17(1):RA18–RA24. doi: 10.12659/MSM.881324

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Key brain structures involved in empathy connected with the 2 modes of processing information: bottom-up (light grey) and top-down (dark grey) interoception. MPFC – medial prefrontal cortex; TPJ – temporo-parietal junction; STS – superior temporal sulcus; TP – temporal pole; ACC – anterior cingulate cortex; AI – anterior insula; SII – somatosensory cortex (after [39], modified).