The Brain Anchors Others’ Experiences to Our Own Mental Maps
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Summary
How does watching someone else get hurt teach us to avoid danger? Researchers at the Social Brain Lab discovered that hippocampal place cells link spatial coordinates to another individual's emotional distress, consolidating the memory during rest and shedding light on vicarious PTSD.
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