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The mirror matching system: A shared manifold for intersubjectivity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2003

Vittorio Gallese
Affiliation:
Istituto di Fisiologia Umana, Università di Parma, I-43100 Parma, Italyvittorio.gallese@unipr.itferrari@biol.unipr.itmaumilta@unipr.it
Pier Francesco Ferrari
Affiliation:
Istituto di Fisiologia Umana, Università di Parma, I-43100 Parma, Italyvittorio.gallese@unipr.itferrari@biol.unipr.itmaumilta@unipr.it
Maria Alessandra Umiltà
Affiliation:
Istituto di Fisiologia Umana, Università di Parma, I-43100 Parma, Italyvittorio.gallese@unipr.itferrari@biol.unipr.itmaumilta@unipr.it

Abstract

Empathy is the phenomenal experience of mirroring ourselves into others. It can be explained in terms of simulations of actions, sensations, and emotions which constitute a shared manifold for intersubjectivity. Simulation, in turn, can be sustained at the subpersonal level by a series of neural mirror matching systems.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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