Correction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57230-w, published online 24 February 2025

In the version of the article initially published, in the third paragraph of the discussion, in the sentence now reading “Notably, the ACC, which plays an integral role in affective empathy in humans8…,,” an incorrect reference was listed; the citation has been amended to Singer, T. et al. Empathy for pain involves the affective but not sensory components of pain. Science 303, 1157–1162 (2004) in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.