El pathosformel goyesco
In looking at these images, however, one realizes the force of the notion of the Pathosformel, and that Goya, like so many great artists, touches us not only in our minds but in our bodies; not just via our prefrontal cortex but also via the premotor cortex, often unmediated by the frontal area of the brain. It is the activation of neural networks in the premotor and motor cortices that make us feel that we are actually engaging in the same action or reaction that we would have made or felt had we been in the same situations as those we see only represented.
David Freedberg – Empathy, Motion and Emotion
Imagen: Francisco de Goya – Lo mismo (1810-1814)