The sensorimotor side of empathy for pain

Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 235-256

  Avenanti, Alessio ^a   Aglioti, Salvatore Maria ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.1007/88-470-0550-7_10     Document Type: Chapter

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