We-ness, Embodied Simulation, and Psychoanalysis: Reply to Commentaries

Vittorio Gallese, M.D., is a Neurologist and Full Professor of Physiology at the Department of Neuroscience of the University of Parma, Italy. He worked at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and at the Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan. He has been George Miller visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley. He has published more than 100 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and edited books. Among his major contributions is the discovery, together with the colleagues of Parma, of mirror neurons and the elaboration of a theoretical model of basic aspects of social cognition–embodied simulation. In 2007 he received with Giacomo Rizzolatti and Leonardo Fogassi the Grawemeyer Award for Psychology for the discovery of mirror neurons.