Bodily selves in relation: Embodied simulation as second-person perspective on intersubjectivity

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1644, 2014, Pages

  Gallese, Vittorio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bodily self; Embodied simulation; Intersubjectivity; Mirror neurons; Neural reuse; Second person perspective

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGY; SIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84899633609     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0177     Document Type: Article

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