Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions, Emotions, and Experience . Giacomo Rizzolatti, Corrado Sinigaglia

Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions, Emotions, and Experience


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Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions, Emotions, and Experience Giacomo Rizzolatti, Corrado Sinigaglia
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA




Istvan Molnar-Szakacs and Katie Overy watched brain scans to see which neurons fired while people and monkeys observed other people and monkeys perform specific actions or experience specific emotions. In order to fit ourselves through openings like doors, we need to have a basic idea of the rough size of our bodies. This mirror effect goes for emotional signals as well. When scientists scanned brains of both piano players and non-players, they found out that nerve cells of both of them were activated by the brain when they were watching a person playing piano. If you just look at a Those are your mirror neurons in action. New research in the field of neuroscience has identified special circuitry in our brains that explain these phenomena as well as many other circumstances where people's brains actually become wired to one another. A set of specific Therefore, when you watch your yoga instructor perform a new posture, you are sharing that experience with her because your neurons are firing as if you are doing the posture. This skill serves an To me, the most breathtaking idea I've ever heard is that each thought a person ever has, every moment of experience, of insight, of reflection, of aspiration, is equivalent to a pattern of brain cells firing in space and time. Our brains don't necessarily think in inches or pant sizes. Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other's mindsAt TEDGlobal 2009, Saxe delves into our amazing capacity to identify and predict others' emotions and actions, and how this ability is learned throughout childhood. Even during the day, I angled my body.

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