Master imitators, yet evidence for a dedicated "mirror system" is messy. 🌐 The Real Neuroscience
Yet, patients with severe paralysis or speech production issues (like Broca’s aphasia) can still perfectly understand the actions and speech of others. The "mirror" was broken, but the understanding remained. 🐒 The Monkey vs. The Human The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscien...
We understand others through high-level conceptual processing. Master imitators, yet evidence for a dedicated "mirror
The motor system helps us predict or refine that understanding. 🐒 The Monkey vs
Discovered in the 1990s in the brains of macaque monkeys, these cells fired both when a monkey grabbed a peanut and when it watched a human grab one. The scientific community went wild. Suddenly, mirror neurons were the "DNA of psychology." Experts claimed they were the secret to empathy, language, and even why we enjoy watching sports.
Hickok argues that the brain is more like a sophisticated than a simple mirror.
Empathy is a complex social construct, not a single-cell reflex.