Rachel Daut’s research while affiliated with Northern Arizona University and other places

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Electroencephalographic α-band and β-band correlates of perspective-taking and personal distress
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October 2011

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Rachel Daut

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Michael Brower

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Ashanti Bragg

Perspective-taking and personal distress are argued to play contrasting roles in empathic processing, with perspective-taking promoting empathic concern and personal distress promoting egoistic motivations. Previous research has shown that emotionally negative valence imagery induced α and β power changes relative to neutral imagery and that α activity relates inversely to empathy. We therefore investigated the hypothesis that enhanced β is associated with personal distress and is accompanied by a correlation between α and perspective-taking. Participants viewed negative and neutral valence images from the International Affective Picture System and made judgments about their levels of concern for humans in each image. As predicted, greater β enhancement was associated with higher personal distress, whereas greater α-band suppression was associated with lower perspective-taking abilities. We suggest that these data support Batson's Empathy-Altruism hypothesis in which failure to adopt another person's perspective is related to greater personal distress.

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... This appears to contradict our results. However, as a marker of hypervigilance, an increase in beta activity signals a higher level of vigilance in a task (Freeman et al. 1999;de Carvalho et al. 2015), which is also linked to personal distress (Woodruff et al. 2011). Previous research indicates that as individuals become more relaxed and less vigilant during a task, alpha power increases while beta power decreases (Davidson et al. 1990;Freeman et al. 1999;Prinzel et al. 2000;Berka et al. 2007), and they report being more cognitively absorbed (Léger et al. 2014). ...

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Neural oscillations predict flow experience
Electroencephalographic α-band and β-band correlates of perspective-taking and personal distress
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  • October 2011

Neuroreport