Embodied Simulation and Touch: the Sense of Touch in Social Cognition

<p>This paper explores the sense of touch in relation to social cognition offering a new take on multisensory integration in the brain, within the framework of Embodied simulation (ES) theory. ES provides a new empirically based notion of intersubjectivity, viewed first and foremost as interco...

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Main Authors: Vittorio Gallese, Sjoerd Ebisch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2016-11-01
Series:Phenomenology and Mind
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Online Access:http://www.fupress.net/index.php/pam/article/view/19602