empathy, embodied simulation, mirror neurons, multisensory integration, social cognition, touch This paper explores the sense of touch in relation to social cognition offering a new take on multisensory integration in the brain, within the framework of embodied simulation (ES) theory. ES provides a new empirically based notion of intersubjectivity, viewed first and foremost as intercorporeality...

Closed head injury (CHI) is associated with communication difficulties in everyday social interactions. Previous work has reported impaired comprehension of sarcasm, using sarcastic remarks where the intended meaning is the opposite of the sincere or literal meaning. Participants with CHI in the present study were assessed using two types of sarcastic items, those with a directly opposite meani...

ed from the experience of interaction. The cause of the patterning of interaction is the interaction itself.

This study examines early-career scientists' cognition, affect, and behaviors before, during, after a series of science communication training workshops drawing from the Risk Information Seeking Processing (RISP) Theory Planned Behavior theoretical models. We find correlations between engagement (throughout training), self-reported knowledge intention to apply their skills. discuss implications...

Thirty years ago, grounded cognition had roots in philosophy, perception, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuropsychology. During the next 20 years, grounded cognition continued developing in these areas, and it also took new forms in robotics, cognitive ecology, cognitive neuroscience, and developmental psychology. In the past 10 years, research on...