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Synesthesia and the crossed wires of perception
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Mirror neurons and the invisible social web
mankai The Mirror Box Cure
You look at a reflection where nothing is left, and the mind lets go of the pain.
mankai While monitoring a macaque monkey's motor cortex at the University of Parma, researchers noticed its neurons fired when watching someone pick up a peanut.
mankai Copy the movements of others to discover how mirror neurons build our social web.
Bird mimics: Songbirds have mirror neurons that fire both when they sing a specific note and when they hear another bird of their species sing it.
A brain cell that fires both when an animal performs an action and when it observes another performing that action. Italian researchers led by Giacomo Rizzolatti discovered these cells in macaque monkeys at the University of Parma.
What specific action performed by a researcher triggered the macaque monkey's mirror neurons to fire in the original experiment?
In which Italian city did researchers accidentally discover mirror neurons in a university lab in 1992?
What is the scientific term for the automatic, involuntary imitation of another person's actions, such as yawning?
Contagious yawning is observed to be significantly stronger and more frequent among which group of people?
How do mirror neurons help us understand a person's physical actions when we watch them?
Mirror neurons are widely considered by neuroscientists to be the biological foundation for which human capacity?
How does mirror box therapy relieve the physical sensation of a cramped, painful phantom limb in amputees?