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 …

In the present paper, we review the recent empirical evidence on the neurobiological basis
of a minimal notion of the self, the bodily self. We show the relationship between the body, its …

Over the last few years, the efforts to reveal through neuroscientific lens the relations
between the mind, body, and built environment have set a promising direction of using …

The last decades of the twentieth century were marked by great progress in cognitive
neuroscience, made possible by recently-developed brain imaging technologies such as …

Body-specific mental rotation is thought to rely upon internal representations of motor
actions. Handedness is a source of distinctly different motor experience that shapes the …

Neuroscientists and philosophers, among others, have long questioned the contribution of
bodily experience to the constitution of self-consciousness. Contemporary research answers …

Along the evolutionary history, humans have reached a high level of sophistication in the
way they interact with the environment. One important step in this process has been the …

Schizophrenia spectrum has been associated with a disruption of the basic sense of self,
which pertains, among others, the representation of one's own body. We investigated the …

The discovery of mirror neurons caused a revolution in neuroscience and psychology.
Nevertheless, because of their profound impact within life sciences, mirror neuron are still …

Adopting the perspective of another person is an important aspect of social cognition and
has been shown to depend on multisensory signals from one's own body. Recent work …