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Mirror Touch, Cinnesthesia - What's Happening in the Brain?
Mirror touch, Cinnesthesia describes an experience where people feel tactile sensations on their own body simply when observing touch happen to other people. Michael Bannessy is a professor at the University of Bristol and he's spent years trying to unpick the science of mirror touch. If we see somebody else being touched, we tend to recruit similar parts of our brain as when we're touched ourselves. The important difference is that they recruit it to a much larger degree. They overactivate the system so much that this leads them to actually start to feel the sensations of other people.
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