Extreme empathizers feel your pain - literally »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 1 year, 2 months agoWhen people say 'I feel your pain,' they do not mean it literally, but some people really do feel something that appears to be an extreme form of empathy, researchers said Sunday. They said watching someone being touched triggers the same part of the brain as actual touch, and this connection helps explain how we understand what other people feel.
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People who experience a tactile sense of touch when they see another person being touched -- something called mirror-touch synesthesia -- was first studied in 2005 in one person.
But researchers at University College London have now studied 10 people with the same condition.
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