title: Overcoming the emotion experience/expression dichotomy.
abstract: We challenge the classic experience/expression dichotomous account of emotions, according to which experiencing and expressing an emotion are two independent processes. By endorsing Dewey's and Mead's accounts of emotions, and capitalizing upon recent empirical findings, we propose that expression is part of the emotional experience. This proposal partly challenges the purely constructivist approach endorsed by the authors of the target article.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neuroscience, Section of Physiology, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Università di Parma, 43100 Parma, Italy. fausto.caruana@iit.it
authors.forename: Fausto
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Caruana
authors.forename: Vittorio
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gallese
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000502:physiology*; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D059906:Neuroimaging; D011859:Radiography