[HTML][HTML] Mirror neurons 30 years later: implications and applications

L Bonini, C Rotunno, E Arcuri, V Gallese - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2022 - cell.com
Mirror neurons (MNs) were first described in a seminal paper in 1992 as a class of monkey
premotor cells discharging during both action execution and observation. Despite their …

[HTML][HTML] Social touch and human development

CJ Cascio, D Moore, F McGlone - Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2019 - Elsevier
Social touch is a powerful force in human development, shaping social reward, attachment,
cognitive, communication, and emotional regulation from infancy and throughout life. In this …

Anterior insular cortex and emotional awareness

X Gu, PR Hof, KJ Friston, J Fan - Journal of Comparative …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews the foundation for a role of the human anterior insular cortex (AIC) in
emotional awareness, defined as the conscious experience of emotions. We first introduce …

What is so special about embodied simulation?

V Gallese, C Sinigaglia - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2011 - cell.com
Simulation theories of social cognition abound in the literature, but it is often unclear what
simulation means and how it works. The discovery of mirror neurons, responding both to …

[图书][B] The empathic screen: Cinema and neuroscience

V Gallese, M Guerra - 2019 - books.google.com
Why do people go to the movies? What does it mean to watch a movie? To what extent is the
perceived fictional nature of movies different from our daily perception of the real world? We …

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

V Gallese - … transactions of the royal society B: biological …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
This article addresses basic aspects of social cognition focusing on the pivotal role played
by the lived body in the constitution of our experience of others. It is suggested that before …

Audience preferences are predicted by temporal reliability of neural processing

JP Dmochowski, MA Bezdek, BP Abelson… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Naturalistic stimuli evoke highly reliable brain activity across viewers. Here we record neural
activity from a group of naive individuals while viewing popular, previously-broadcast …

Neurobiology of loneliness, isolation, and loss: integrating human and animal perspectives

EM Vitale, AS Smith - Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In social species such as humans, non-human primates, and even many rodent species,
social interaction and the maintenance of social bonds are necessary for mental and …

Primary somatosensory cortex discriminates affective significance in social touch

V Gazzola, ML Spezio, JA Etzel… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Another person's caress is one of the most powerful of all emotional social signals. How
much the primary somatosensory cortices (SIs) participate in processing the pleasantness of …

Vicarious responses to social touch in posterior insular cortex are tuned to pleasant caressing speeds

M Björnsdotter, H Olausson - Journal of Neuroscience, 2011 - Soc Neuroscience
Background. Affective touch carries strong significance for social mammals, including
humans. Gentle, dynamic touch of a kind that occurs during social interactions is …