Mirror neurons: The most hyped concept in neuroscience?

Mirror neurons: The most hyped concept in neuroscience?
- December 11, 2012
- Greg Hickok, cognitive sciences professor and Center for Language Science director, is quoted in Psychology Today December 10, 2012
From Psychology Today:
Back in the 1990s neuroscientists at the University of Parma identified cells in
the premotor cortex of monkeys that had an unusual response pattern. They were activated
when the monkeys performed a given action and, mirror-like, when they saw another
individual perform that same movement. Since then, the precise function and influence
of these neurons has become perhaps the most hyped topic in neuroscience…Gregory Hickok
at the University of California Irvine thinks the function of mirror neurons is not
about understanding others’ actions per se, but about using others actions’ in the
process of making our own choice of how to act. Seen this way, mirror neuron activity
is just as likely a consequence of action understanding, as a cause.
For the full story, please visit http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brain-myths/201212/mirror-neurons-th....
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