Sharing others’ emotions is crucial for social relationships. Previous research on empathy has suggested that people share others’ emotions by processing them (at least partially) using their own personal neural representations. In this project we will investigate whether the same hypothesis is also relevant to explaining empathy arising from emotional voices. We will combine analyses of the neural activity in the brain (fMRI) and physiological manifestations of emotional responses (GSR) in order to investigate common neural representations associated with the subjective experience of empathy arising from emotional voices.The results will contribute to a better understanding of empathy and whether the ability to mirror others is facilitated by the putative mirror-neuron areas of the brain.