Mirror neurons received significant media attention in the 2000s and were painted by some scientists as the key to many of our advanced social abilities. However, many of the more significant ...

Since their discovery in the monkey brain, it has been suggested that mirror neurons mediate the mimicking of behaviour in primates and perhaps also underlie empathy and language acquisition in ...

the scientist who discovered mirror neurons, and the research group composed of Cinzia Di Dio, Laura Miraglia, Giulia Peretti ...

Earlier studies with monkeys revealed that brain cells called mirror neurons respond both when we do something, like pick up an object, and when we simply watch someone else do it. It was known ...

Mirror neurons are a group of brain cells that fire both when an individual performs an action and when they see someone else ...

Understanding how to use your empathy to your benefit involves delving into its neuropsychological foundations: “mirror neurons,” the remarkable cells that play a key role in mirroring the ...

Their findings, published in Cell, describe a subset of neurons in the hypothalamus that fire when a mouse fights or watches other mice fight, indicating the existence of mirror neurons, cells that ...

A new study published in Current Biology has uncovered a peculiar social behavior in chimpanzees that experts call ...