Title
Neural correlates of empathy towards robots
Abstract
We conducted an fMRI study to investigate emotionality in human-robot interaction. Subjects (N=14) were presented videos showing a human, a robot and an unanimated object, being treated in either an affectionate or a violent way. Violent interaction towards both the robot and the human resulted in similar neural activation patterns in classic limbic structures indicating that both the robot and the human elicit similar emotional reactions. However, differences in neural activity suggest that participants show more negative empathetic concern for the human in a negative situation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/HRI.2013.6483578
HRI
Keywords
Field
DocType
magnetic resonance imaging,emotional reactions,process control,robots,human robot interaction,psychology,hippocampus,neurophysiology
Empathy,Neural correlates of consciousness,Emotionality,Functional magnetic resonance imaging,Computer science,Cognitive psychology,Neural activity,Human–computer interaction,Robot,Human–robot interaction
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2167-2121
978-1-4673-3055-8
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.72
4
8