This article presents preliminary considerations and results from a research project designed to investigate the relation between (i) gestures, (ii) graphic traces and (iii) perceptions. More specifically, the project aims to test the hypothesis that graphic traces, including handwriting, can set up graphetic empathy between writers and readers of traces across long temporal and spatial distances. Insofar as a graphic trace is lawfully related to the gesture by which it came into being, the trace itself will hold information about the gesture, which may resonate with the sensorimotor system of a perceiver, as if they themselves performed the gesture. If this is in fact so, it will have important and hitherto unanticipated implications for our understanding of the embodiment of reading. As part of the article we will present and discuss the results of a neurophenomenological trial study through which we attempt to operationalize the gesture-trace and trace–perception relations respectively.

本文介绍了旨在研究（i）手势，（ii）图形痕迹和（iii）感知之间的关系的研究项目的初步考虑因素和结果。更具体地说，该项目旨在检验以下假设：图形迹线（包括手写体）可以在较长的时间和空间距离上建立迹线的作者和读者之间的图形共鸣。就图形迹线合法地与其产生的手势相关而言，迹线本身将保存有关手势的信息，这可能会与感知器的感觉运动系统产生共振，就好像它们自己执行了手势一样。如果事实确实如此，它将对我们对阅读方式的理解产生重要且前所未有的影响。