Conversation with Vittorio Gallese about empathy and aesthetic experience

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Perla Gianni Falvo

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Vittorio Gallese is professor of Psychobiology at the University of Parma, Italy, and was professor in Experimental Aesthetics at the University of London, UK (2016-2018). He is an expert in neurophysiology, cognitive neuroscience, social neuroscience, and philosophy of mind. Gallese is one of the discoverers of mirror neurons. Gallese has been doing research at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, at the Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan, at the University of California at Berkeley and at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain of the Humboldt University of Berlin. He has been George Miller visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley. His research attempts to elucidate the functional organization of brain mechanisms underlying social cognition, including action understanding, empathy, language, mindreading and aesthetic experience.

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Gianni Falvo, P. (2018). Conversation with Vittorio Gallese about empathy and aesthetic experience. Studies in Digital Heritage, 2(1), XXX-XLVII. https://doi.org/10.14434/sdh.v2i1.27926
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