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Without empathy, art could also exist but no one would know that it exists, everything that cannot be shared is placed outside common sense. It seems obvious that mirror neurons enter the phenomenology of art in an overwhelming way, because they allow us to put ourselves in the shoes and mind of the poet who wrote that text, of the painter who painted that picture. Without this function, someone could also do something beautiful that we could call art, but no one would appreciate it; this is because there would be no inter-subjectivity that links in a network the emotions, beliefs, concepts and ideas of the people who participate in this common artistic experience. This network explains how, even in abstract art, beauty is expressed by the artist and shared by the viewer. Vittorio Gallese (2014) explained to us that neuroscience research in recent decades has shown that perception is a multimodal process that involves the activation not only of the corresponding areas of the brain (therefore the sensory ones, for example) but also of brain circuits. sensor-motor, viscero-motor and affective So it is all our brain that is recruited to perform these functions which from the point of view of emotions and cognition represent the maximum performance that our brain is able to give, and it is not little. Let us now observe the tenth table of the Rorschach test and also here we discover how nothing is as it appears to us, because we believe we see it in a certain way and instead the neurophysiology studies show us other things. Rorschach was a psychiatrist who lived in the early years of the last century, also a painter. The fact is, if the Rorschach test were not so, which would not work so marvelously from the point of view of psychodiagnosis, we see the color in the V4 area before we see the movement (V5) and the movement we see it before. see form (V3-V4). In other words, color, shape and movement reach the brain at different times and in different areas; we are convinced of the simultaneity of perception, but in reality, this is not the case. This fact explains why in front of table 10 of the Rorschach someone, working with rational Aristotelian thought, will say: “they are two mice that are both attached to an axis”; this is an indication of ordered, regular and linear thinking in which the emotional and affective component does not play a decisive role. Another person, instead of facing this same image, may say: “Oh my God, what a fear! But this is blood; oh my god I can’t tolerate seeing all this blood”. It is obvious that, in this case for the cerebral organization of this individual, the visual component that reaches the brain first plays a prominent role; this considered the cyto-architectural organization of the brain and therefore circuit in the brain of that subject. The color responses (C) are more involved with the overall value (unconscious mechanisms) than those of form (F) (index of ordered and linear thinking). So, this test, considering the neurophysiological characteristics that we have just said, that is that the color arrives before the movement and before the form, allows us to understand which is the unconscious organization and the thigh of an individual. It is obvious that this distancing of times is a <strong>360</strong> <strong>GRADI</strong> 37