Mirror Neurons - Lisa Aziz-Zadeh, University of Southern California from g m aziz Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 10 min 99 sec
✓ Published: 07-Dec-2011

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Mirror NeuronsnLisa Aziz-Zadeh, University of Southern CaliforniannHow do we understand other people’s actions and intentions? What are the neural mechanisms of social communication? Recent research suggests that areas in the human brain involved in controlling actions are also involved in processing other people’s actions. This “human mirror neuron system” seems to process other people’s actions by mapping them onto one’s own motor representations for how the viewer himself would ma