Research Has Shown That Watching Someone in Physical Pain Activates

question 147

Multiple Choice

Research has shown that watching someone in physical pain activates:

• A)brain regions associated with our own emotional experience of physical pain.
• B)language association areas used to describe abstract concepts such as suffering.
• C)hindbrain areas that were the earliest brain regions to evolve.
• D)brain regions associated with moral reasoning.

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