Human infant imitation as a social survival circuit

AN Meltzoff, PJ Marshall - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Imitation is a social act, promoting parent–infant affiliation.•Culture is transmitted
across generations via imitation.•Infants can imitate from memory and regulate their …

Revealing the body in the brain: an ERP method to examine sensorimotor activity during visual perception of body-related information

A Galvez-Pol, B Calvo-Merino, B Forster - Cortex, 2020 - Elsevier
Examining the processing of others' body-related information in the perceivers' brain across
the neurotypical and clinical population is a key topic in the domain of cognitive …

Infant brain responses to felt and observed touch of hands and feet: an MEG study

AN Meltzoff, RR Ramírez, JN Saby… - Developmental …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
There is growing interest concerning the ways in which the human body, both one's own and
that of others, is represented in the developing human brain. In two experiments with 7 …

ASMR‐Experience Questionnaire (AEQ): A data‐driven step towards accurately classifying ASMR responders

TR Swart, NC Bowling… - British Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) describes an atypical multisensory
experience of calming, tingling sensations that originate in the crown of the head in …

Developmental perspectives on interpersonal affective touch

L Crucianelli, ML Filippetti - Topoi, 2020 - Springer
In the last decade, philosophy, neuroscience and psychology alike have paid increasing
attention to the study of interpersonal affective touch, which refers to the emotional and …

[HTML][HTML] Touching you, touching me: Higher incidence of mirror-touch synaesthesia and positive (but not negative) reactions to social touch in Autonomous Sensory …

H Gillmeister, A Succi, V Romei, GL Poerio - Consciousness and Cognition, 2022 - Elsevier
The characterisation of autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) as an audio-visual
phenomenon overlooks how tactile experiences are not just perceptual concurrents of …

Neural representations of the body in 60‐day‐old human infants

AN Meltzoff, JN Saby, PJ Marshall - Developmental Science, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The organization of body representations in the adult brain has been well documented. Little
is understood about this aspect of brain organization in human infancy. The current study …

Heterosexual, gay, and lesbian people's reactivity to virtual caresses on their embodied avatars' taboo zones

M Fusaro, MP Lisi, G Tieri, SM Aglioti - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Embodying an artificial agent through immersive virtual reality (IVR) may lead to feeling
vicariously somatosensory stimuli on one's body which are in fact never delivered. To …

[HTML][HTML] Vicarious touch: overlapping neural patterns between seeing and feeling touch

S Smit, D Moerel, R Zopf, AN Rich - NeuroImage, 2023 - Elsevier
Simulation theories propose that vicarious touch arises when seeing someone else being
touched triggers corresponding representations of being touched. Prior …

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

S Rigato, MJ Banissy, A Romanska, R Thomas… - Developmental cognitive …, 2019 - Elsevier
The human brain recruits similar brain regions when a state is experienced (eg, touch, pain,
actions) and when that state is passively observed in other individuals. In adults, seeing …