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Embodied Simulation. Its Bearing on Aesthetic Experience and the Dialogue Between Neuroscience and the Humanities

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What is What? Focus on Transdisciplinary Concepts and Terminology in Neuroaesthetics, Cognition and Poetics / Was ist Was? Transdisziplinäre Konzepte und Terminologien in Neuro-Ästhetik, Kognition und Poetik. Guest Editors: Renata Gambino, Grazia Pulvirenti, Elisabetta Vinci.

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