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Decety, J. (in preparation). Neuroscience of empathic responding. In S. Brown, L. Perner & R. Brown (Eds.), Self Interest and Beyond: Toward a New Understanding of Human Caregiving. New York: Oxford University Press.

Decety, J., & Meltzoff, A.N. (in press). Imitation, empathy and the social brain. In A. Coplan & P. Goldie (Eds.), Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives. New York: Oxford University Press.

Decety, J., & Batson, C.D. (in press). Empathy and morality: Integrating social and neuroscience approaches. In J. Verplaetse (Ed.), The Moral Brain. Springer Verlag.

Decety, J., & Stevens, J. (in press). Action representation and its role in social interaction. In K. Markman, B. Klein & J. Suhr (Eds.), The Handbook of Imagination and Mental Simulation. New York: Psychology Press.

Decety, J., & Meyer, M. (in press). Imitation as a stepping stone to empathy. In M. de Hann & M. Gunnar. The Handbook of Developmental Social Neuroscience. New York: Guikford Publications.

Decety, J., & Lamm, C. (in press). Empathy versus personal distress - Recent evidence from social neuroscience. In J. Decety & W. Ickes (Eds.), The Social Neuroscience of Empathy. Cambridge: MIT press. 

Decety, J., & Lamm, C. (in press). The biological basis of empathy. In J. T. Cacioppo & G. G. Berntson (Eds.), Handbook of Neuroscience for the Behavioral Sciences. New York: John Wiley and Sons. 

Van Baaren, R.B., Decety, J., Dijksterhuis, A., van der Leij, A., & van Leeuwen, M.L. (in press). Being imitated: consequences of non-consciously showing empathy. In J. Decety & W. Ickes (Eds.), The Social Neuroscience of Empathy. Cambridge: MIT press. 

Decety, J. (in press). The social neuroscience of empathy. In D. Sanders & K.L. Scherer (Eds.), Oxford Companion to Affective Sciences. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Decety, J. (in press). Empathy. In P. Wilken, T. Bayne & A. Cleeremans (Eds.), Oxford Companion to Consciousness. New York: Oxford University Press. 

Decety, J., & Sommerville, J.A. (2008). Action representation as the bedrock of social cognition: A developmental neuroscience perspective. In J. Bargh, P. Gollwitzer & E. Morsella (Eds.), The Psychology of Action (pp. 250-273). New York: Oxford University Press. 

Decety, J., & Sommerville, J. (2007). Motor cognition and mental simulation. In S. Kosslyn & E. Smith (Eds.), Cognitive Psychology: Mind and Brain (pp. 451-481). New York: Prentice Hall.

Decety, J. (2007). A social cognitive neuroscience model of human empathy. In E. Harmon-Jones & P. Winkielman (Eds.), Social Neuroscience: Integrating Biological and Psychological Explanations of Social Behavior (pp. 246-270). New York: Guilford Publications. 

Decety, J., Jackson, P.L., & Brunet, E. (2007). The cognitive neuropsychology of empathy. In T.F. Farrow & P.W. Woodruff (Eds.), Empathy in Mental Illness and Health (pp. 239-260). Cambridge University Press. 

Decety, J. (2006). A cognitive neuroscience view of imitation. In S. Rogers & J. Williams (Eds.), Imitation and the Social Mind: Autism and Typical Development (pp. 251-274). New York: Guilford Publication. 

Decety, J., & Hodges, S.D. (2006). A social cognitive neuroscience model of human empathy. In P.A.M. van Lange (Ed.), Bridging Social Psychology: Benefits of Transdisciplinary Approaches (pp. 103-109). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 

Decety, J. (2006). La representation d’autrui abordée par les neurosciences sociales. In G. Fussmann (Ed.), Croyance, Raison et Deraison (pp. 37-54). Paris: Editions Odile Jacob. 

Decety, J. (2005). Perspective taking as the royal avenue to empathy. In B.F. Malle, & S. D. Hodges (Eds.), Other Minds: How Humans Bridge the Divide between Self and Others, (pp. 135-149). New York: Guilford Publishers. 

Meltzoff, A.N., & Decety, J. (2004). What imitation tells us about social cognition: a rapprochement between developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience. In D. Wolpert & C. D. Frith (Eds.), The Neuroscience of Social Interactions: Decoding, Influencing, and Imitating the Actions of Others (pp. 109-129). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Decety, J. (2004). L’empathie est-elle une simulation mentale de la perspective subjective d’autrui. In A. Berthoz & G. Jorland (Eds.), L’Empathie (pp. 53-88). Paris: Editions Odile Jacob. 

Decety, J., & Chaminade, T. (2004). The neurophysiology of imitation and intersubjectivity.  In S. Hurley & N. Chater (Eds.), Perspectives on Imitation: From Cognitive Neuroscience to Social Science (pp. 119-140). Cambridge: MIT Press. 

Decety, J. (2002). Les fondements naturels de la sympathie. In Y. Michaud (Ed.), Qu’est-ce que la Vie Psychique? (pp. 71-101). Paris: Editions Odile Jacob. 

Decety, J. (2002). Neurophysiological evidence for simulation of action. In J. Dokic & J. Proust (Eds.), Simulation and Knowledge of Action (pp. 53-72). New York: Benjamins Publishers. 

Decety, J. (2002). Is there such a thing as a functional equivalence between imagined, observed and executed actions. In A.N. Meltzoff & W. Prinz (Eds.), The Imitative Mind: Development, Evolution and Brain Bases (pp. 291-310). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

Decety, J. (2002). Neurobiologie des représentations motrices partagées. In J. Nadel & J. Decety (Eds.), Imiter pour Découvrir l'Humain (pp. 105-130). Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 

Decety, J., & Grèzes J. (2000). Représentations mentales/neurales et action. In F. Viader, B. Lechevalier & F. Eustache (Eds), Espace, Geste, Action: Neuropsychologie des Agnosies Spatiales et des Apraxies (pp. 85-112). Bruxelles: DeBoeck Université. 

Decety, J. (2000). Les images du cerveau: quel est l’intérêt et quelles sont les limites des techniques de neuroimagerie? In: Annales d’Histoire et de Philosophie du Vivant, Vol 3, Le Cerveau et les Images (pp. 39-61). Paris: Les empêcheurs de penser en rond Synthélabo. 

Decety, J. (1999). The perception of action: Its putative effect on neural plasticity. In. J. Grafman & Y. Christen (Eds.), Neuronal Plasticity: Building a Bridge from the Laboratory to the Clinic (pp. 109-130). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.  

Broussolle, E., Thobois, S., Dominey, P., Decety, J., & Pollak, P. (1999). Motor imagery in normal and pathological states. In N. Gantchev & G. N. Gantchev (Eds.), From Basic Motor Control to Functional Recovery (pp. 411-418). Sofia: Academic Publishing House. 

Decety, J. (1998). Action, activation/inhibition, apprentissage, communication, contrôle, contraintes, fonction, imagerie cérébrale fonctionnelle, information, neuropsychologie, plasticité, localisation cérébrale. In O. Houdé (Ed.), Vocabulaire de Sciences Cognitives. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.  

Decety, J. (1997). La programmation de l'action. In S. Dehaene (Ed.), Le Cerveau en Action: Imagerie Cérébrale Fonctionnelle en Psychologie Cognitive (pp. 145-158). Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 

Decety, J. (1994). Brain areas responsible for the generation and control of reaching and grasping: Anatomy with positron emission tomography. In K.M.B. Bennett & U. Castiello (Eds.), New Perspectives in the Control of the Reach to Grasp Movement (pp. 109-129). New York: Elsevier Science Publisher. 

Jeannerod, M., & Decety, J. (1994). From motor images to motor programs. In J. Riddoch & G. Humphreys (Eds.), Cognitive Neuropsychology and Cognitive Rehabilitation (pp. 225-243). Hillsdale: Erlbaum. 

Roland, P.E., & Decety, J. (1993). Visual cortices participating in visual memory and visual imagery. In B. Gulyas, D. Ottoson & P.E. Roland (Eds.), The functional Organization of the Human Visual Cortex (pp. 373-385). Oxford: Pergamon Press. 

Decety, J. (1992). Ist die durch motorische repräsentation induzierte vegetative aktivierung auf zentrale oder periphere mechanismen zurück-zuführen? In L. Beyer & Th. Weiss (Eds.), Psychophysiologie Motorischer Prozesse (pp. 32-54). Jena: Zahlreich Abb. 

Gulyás, B., Roland, P.E., Seitz, R.J., & Decety, J. (1991). Two dimensional functional maps of the human neocortex. In: Karolinska Institute Publications (pp. 2-19). Stockholm. 

Decety, J. (1991). Comparative analysis of graphic movement times and rCBF patterns of handwriting. In G.E. Stelmach (Ed.), Motor Control of Handwriting (pp. 179-182). Tempe: Arizona State University Press. 

Jeannerod, M., & Decety, J. (1990). The accuracy of visuomotor transformation: An investigation into the mechanisms of visual recognition of objects. In M.A. Goodale (Ed.), Perception and Action (pp. 45-65). New Jersey: Ablex Publishing Corporation.

Michel, F., & Decety, J. (1987). L'imagerie mentale motrice. In: Rééducation des Fonctions Supérieures. Concilia Médica, 6, 175-182. 

 

Books as an editor

The Handbook of Social Neuroscience (in preparation). J. Decety and J. Cacioppo (Eds.). New York: Oxford University Press.

The Social Neuroscience of Empathy (in press). J. Decety and W. Ickes (Eds.). Cambridge: MIT Press, Cambridge. 

Interpersonal Sensitivity: Entering Others' Worlds (2007). J. Decety and C.D. Batson (Eds.). Hove: Psychology Press.

Imiter pour Découvrir l’Humain (2002). J. Nadel, and J. Decety (Eds.). Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 

Cerveau, Perception et Action (2000). J. Decety (Ed.). Grenoble: Presses Universitaires de Grenoble. 

Perception and Action: Recent Advances in Cognitive Neuropsychology (1998). J. Decety (Ed.). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.