Paul Auster, 1947-2024. RIP.
To Siri, Sophie, Spencer and the little Miles a heartfelt hug.

Bellissimo intervento di Ugo Morelli.
doppiozero.com/oggi-con-chi-p…

Da oggi in libreria!

Conversation with Vittorio Gallese about empathy and aesthetic experience.
Perla Gianni Falvo
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Today's talk in the Alte Aula of Univesität Tübingen.

theguardian.com/technology/202…

The domains identified, including food, the body, the physical world and emotions/values, underscored the intricate interplay between the senses, emotion and semantic patterns.
cambridge.org/core/journals/…

There is no such thing as 'a brain in a vat'.
bigthink.com/13-8/the-key-p…

Disrupted mid-insular activation may represent a neural marker of psychopathology and a putative target for novel interventions.

ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ap…

The body! 'These results suggest that the representational geometries used to internally organize conceptual spaces might be read out from gaze behavior.'
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

The dorsolateral amygdala, the claustrum and the pulvinar belong to a multisensory network that modulates the perception of visual socioemotional information and vocalizations as a function of the relevance of the stimuli in the social context.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ej…

Hyperphantasia is far more common among children, and fades across adolescence and into adulthood.
theguardian.com/science/2024/a…

TPJ is NOT 'mindreading'-specific, whatever 'mindreading' means...
link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Casa Mantovani Fondazione Don Ivo Silingardi - Nazareno, Via Santa Barbara, 9 | Bologna (BO), 23 maggio ore 18:00.

The 'supposed' core language network. Overlap in the same brain areas with body-related activity is totally neglected.
nature.com/articles/s4158…

Enhanced P100 in infants' ERP response to their own face compared to others' faces, suggesting the presence of an enhanced attentional mechanism to one own's face as early as 6 months.
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cd…

nytimes.com/2024/04/19/boo…

Dan Dennett passed away. RIP.
dailynous.com/2024/04/19/dan…