Mirror Neurons

05/30/2016

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change.
Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006), Science Fiction Author

In Boosting Brain Power, Jill Stamm described the discovery of mirror neurons:

"These neurons have a unique characteristic in that they fire, or activate, both when a person simply observes someone else carrying out an action and when the person actually carries out an action himself. This discovery that there are brain regions that activate during both observed and performed actions is the beginning of understanding how and why imitation is one of the main ways that humans learn from each other...

"This helps explain how someone can learn by just watching a teacher, a parent, or another child do an activity. We imitate what we see. Our mirror neurons have shortened our learning curve."

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