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Vittorio Gallese

Vittorio Gallese is currently professor of physiology at the University of Parma, Italy. His research centers on mirror neurons, neuroaesthetics, neurophenomenology, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, psychopathology, and social neuroscience.


Contact

vittorio.gallese@unipr.it



OM Contributions

The Paradigmatic Body: Embodied Simulation, Intersubjectivity, the Bodily Self, and Language
Embodied Simulation: A Paradigm for the Constitution of Self and Others

Publications

  • Gallese, V., Keysers, C., & Rizzolatti, G. (2004). A unifying view of the basis of social cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8(9), 396-403.

  • Buccino, G., Binkofski, F., Fink, G. R., Fadiga, L., Fogassi, L., Gallese, V., Seitz, R. J., Zilles, K., Rizzolatti, G. & Freund, H.-J. (2001). Action observation activates premotor and parietal areas in a somatotopic manner: An fMRI study. European Journal of Neuroscience, 13(2), 400-404.

  • Rizzolatti, G., Fogassi, L., & Gallese, V. (2001). Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying the understanding and imitation of action. Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 2(9), 661-670.

  • Gallese, V., Fadiga, L., Fogassi, L., & Rizzolatti, G. (1996). Action recognition in the premotor cortex. Brain, 119(2), 593-609.

  • Rizzolatti, G., Fadiga, L., Gallese, V., & Fogassi, L. (1996). Premotor cortex and the recognition of motor actions. Cognitive Brain Research, 3(2), 131-141.

Online Resources