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Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia Is Not Associated with Heightened Empathy, and Can Occur with Autism

Research has linked Mirror-Touch (MT) synaesthesia with enhanced empathy. We test the largest sample of MT synaesthetes to date to examine two claims that have been previously made: that MT synaesthetes (1) have superior empathy; and (2) only ever experience their MT synaesthesia in response to view...

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Autores principales: Baron-Cohen, Simon, Robson, Emma, Lai, Meng-Chuan, Allison, Carrie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4973977/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27490947
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0160543