Understanding the emotional states of others is thought to involve simulating the same state in one's own mind. Simulationist models of embodied emotion argue that expression recognition cannot be performed as a disembodied cognitive process involving the amodal matching of physical properties with abstract concepts; rather, perception of this biologically significant stimulus class relies on the activation of a distributed sensorimo-tor network that facilitates emotion recognition. The somatosensory and perceptual elements that are encoded when we experience an emotion are reactivated when we see the facial expression associated with that emotion (Goldman and Sripada, 2005; Niedenthal, 2007)#
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