Multisensory Spatial Mechanisms of the Bodily Self and Social Cognition
Infoscience 2015 Christian Pfeiffer 5 citations
This commentary aims to find the right description of the pre-reflective brain mechanisms underlying our phenomenal experience of being a subject bound to a physical body (bodily self) and basic cognitive, perceptual, and subjective aspects related to interaction with other individuals (social cognition). I will focus on the proposal by Gallese and Cuccio that embodied simulation, in terms of...