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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When we watch someone else in pain, our mirror neurons activate and simulate the pain being experienced by the other person. This simulation of pain is processed in the same brain regions that process our own experiences of physical pain.

Research Has Shown That Watching Someone in Physical Pain Activates