Cortical signatures of vicarious tactile experience in four-month-old infants

The human brain recruits similar brain regions when a state is experienced (e.g., touch, pain, actions) and when that state is passively observed in other individuals. In adults, seeing other people being touched activates similar brain areas as when we experience touch ourselves. Here we show that...

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Main Authors: Silvia Rigato, Michael J. Banissy, Aleksandra Romanska, Rhiannon Thomas, José van Velzen, Andrew J. Bremner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-02-01
Series:Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929317300804