About the Authors

Giovanni Mirabella

Contributed equally to this work with: Giovanni Mirabella, Sara Iaconelli

giovanni.mirabella@uniroma1.it (GM); vittorio.gallese@unipr.it (VG)

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience, Istituto Neurologico Mediterraneo Neuromed, Pozzilli (IS), Italy, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

Sara Iaconelli

Contributed equally to this work with: Giovanni Mirabella, Sara Iaconelli

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Istituto Neurologico Mediterraneo Neuromed, Pozzilli (IS), Italy

Silvia Spadacenta

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Rome La SapienzaRome, Italy

Paolo Federico

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

Vittorio Gallese

giovanni.mirabella@uniroma1.it (GM); vittorio.gallese@unipr.it (VG)

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience, Section of Physiology, University of Parma, Parma, Italy, IIT (Italian Institute of Technology) Brain Center for Social and Motor Cognition, Parma, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GM VG. Performed the experiments: SI SS PF. Analyzed the data: GM SI SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GM. Wrote the paper: GM VG SI.