Social cognition and the insula: in search for a common role of the insula in experiencing disgust and recognizing disgust in others. A combined behavioral, functional and reversible perturbation study in the non-human primate. KU Leuven
A popular view in social neurosciences posits that we understand other individual`s actions, sensations and emotions at least in part by internally simulating these observed events in our own motor, somatosensory and emotional brain areas. In other words, this view suggests that some of the very same neurons that allow us to grasp an object, experience pain or to feel happy or disgusted, also allow us to understand similar behavior or ...