How mirror neurones allow us to learn and socialise by going through the motions in the head
Saturday, December 20, 2008 - 08:07
in Biology & Nature
The old adage that we can only learn how to do something by trying it ourselves may have to be revised in the light of recent discoveries in neuroscience. It turns out that humans, primates, some birds, and possibly other higher animals have mirror neurones that fire in the same pattern whether performing or just observing a task...