Hiroki Kojima

A Sensorimotor Signature of the Transition to Conscious Social Perception: Co-regulation of Active and Passive Touch.

Frontiers in Psychology 2017 Hiroki Kojima, Tom Froese, Mizuki Oka et al.

It is not yet well understood how we become conscious of the presence of other people as being other subjects in their own right. Developmental and phenomenological approaches are converging on a relational hypothesis: my perception of a "you" is primarily constituted by another subject's attention being directed toward "me." This is particularly the case when my body is being physically...