An infant's history and memory response to touch, both felt and seen, sets the stage for empathy. The evidence of activity in the somatosensory cortex for both “felt touch” and “observed touch” shows that 7-month-old infants have already made a basic connection between “self” and “other.”

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An infant's history and memory response to touch, both felt and seen, sets the stage for empathy. The evidence of activity in the somatosensory cortex for both “felt touch” and “observed touch” shows that 7-month-old infants have already made a basic connection between “self” and “other.”