Mirror neurons are a type of brain cell that is activated both when performing an action and when observing another individual perform that same action, a process thought to help an individual ...

Mirror neurons are amazing neurons that participate in important processes such as learning, empathy and imitation. They were discovered by chance by the Italian neurobiologist Giacomo Rizzolatti in ...

Scientists have pinpointed a group of cells in the brain whose activity could help explain the ability to share another’s pain. Why can we feel other people’s pain? A recent study in rats investigates ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American In the early 1990s, a team of neuroscientists ...

In a recent study published in the journal Cell, researchers utilized a genetically encoded mirror-TRAP strategy to investigate the functional importance of aggression-mirroring neurons. Social ...

A group of brain cells in mice becomes active both when the animals fight and when they watch other mice fight, a study 1 shows. The work hints that such ‘mirror neurons’, which fire when an animal ...

Nat Clin Pract Neurol. 2009;5(1):24-34. Studies in which the properties of single neurons were studied in a naturalistic context have been particularly important for establishing this new view on ...

Watching this one-year old going to sleep might make you want to go to sleep too. Shutterstock Mirror neurons are amazing neurons that participate in important processes such as learning, empathy and ...