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From the post:
>Imagine you’re cooking dinner with a friend when suddenly they cut themselves. Within milli-seconds, you have pulled a face, winced, and perhaps even flinched your own hand. This bodily sensation is a result of your own brain’s activation of the touch-centre, or somatosensory cortex.
How is it possible that our sense of touch is activated purely by looking at another person? To answer this question, researchers from the UK, USA, and VU, NIN (KNAW) in Amsterdam explored this phenomenon using an unusual approach: watching Hollywood films.
Archive: https://archive.today/BhxwI
From the post:
>>Imagine you’re cooking dinner with a friend when suddenly they cut themselves. Within milli-seconds, you have pulled a face, winced, and perhaps even flinched your own hand. This bodily sensation is a result of your own brain’s activation of the touch-centre, or somatosensory cortex.
How is it possible that our sense of touch is activated purely by looking at another person? To answer this question, researchers from the UK, USA, and VU, NIN (KNAW) in Amsterdam explored this phenomenon using an unusual approach: watching Hollywood films.
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