The mirror matching system: A shared manifold for intersubjectivity

Vittorio Gallese; Pier Francesco Ferrari; Maria Alessandra Umiltà

doi:10.1017/S0140525X02370018

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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.

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