Scientists have discovered that we have mirror neurons that trigger us to directly experience the emotional atmosphere of others.
These are important results because they demonstrate a mirror neuron response to the meaning of an action and not just the observation of one.
He could have been referring to what some consider one of the greatest recent discoveries of neuroscience: mirror neurons.
However, Marco Iacoboni, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, claims to have seen individual brain cells behaving like mirror neurons in people.
These mirror neurons, it seemed, responded differently to observed behavior depending on how far the behavior occurred from the monkey.
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