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Mirror Neurons

Dave! · 2008-05-08 22:00:26

Hey folks, I've been learning a bit about these in college.... really interesting stuff. They're neurons that fire both (a) when someone carries out an action, and (b) when they witness the same action being carried out. Could be important for understanding things like how we get emotionally involved in watching sports...…

08-05-2008 11:00PM

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Hey folks,

I've been learning a bit about these in college.... really interesting stuff.

They're neurons that fire both (a) when someone carries out an action, and (b) when they witness the same action being carried out.

Could be important for understanding things like how we get emotionally involved in watching sports... empathy with other humans... autism... human evolution... and so on.

There's a great 15 minute video here
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3204/01.html

Definitely worth a watch IMO!

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