and all activity even though the macaque isn t moving so the apes neurons are being activated simply by observing someone else s movement this market discovery of mirror neurons. jackal moderates alas he is a professor of physiology and director of the department of neurons sciences at the university of parma in italy. there was no way we could have known these neurons existed. but our discovery was not random but it was a result of our approach. others who studied the motor neuron system we took an ecological approach. and the monkey in front of us and we played with it the traditional research used to conditioning approach the monkey would sit in a chair in front of a screen when it moved it s on they would study the movement and how it worked. our
major contribution was to use a very different approach we played with the monkey and then it made it possible for us to discover something that no one suspected might exist it should have been said it could you foresee. just after the discovery of mirror neurons in monkey use the next step was to demonstrate their existence in the human brain. that. we ve known for a number of years now and when a person sees someone laughing consciously the same muscles are activated as if they were laughing themselves. the same thing happens when you observe another person crying. that activates your facial muscles as if you yourself were crying.
and all activity even though the macaque isn t moving so the apes neurons are being activated simply by observing someone else s movement this market discovery of mirror neurons. jackal moderates alas he is a professor of physiology and director of the department of neurons sciences at the university of parma in italy. there was no way we could have known these neurons existed. but our discovery was not random but it was a result of our approach. others who studied the motor neuron system we took an ecological approach. the monkey in front of us and we played with it the traditional research used to conditioning approach the monkey would sit in a chair in front of a screen when it moved it s on they would study the movement and how it worked. our
to wait no mirror neurons help make it possible for mammals to communicate emotion and to understand the emotions of others. over the course of evolution mirror neurons helped primates develop imitation skills which promotes social cohesion. so it s no surprise that humans the most social of animals possess and usually complex mirror mechanism and that the mechanism has a link to laughter. it s apparent that laughter is not unique to humans that discovery has helped us arrive at a better understanding of the science of evolution. the researchers working in this
when i say that if i walk into a room where everyone s laughing i ll start to laugh to see without knowing why. i asked. the queen nobody i m with you but the. dream of in this case we don t talk about empathy but emotional contagion banned here too we believe that mirror neurons may be playing an important role important that. bath was. going to bed when we first discovered mirror neurons we asked ourselves two questions what are they used for to understand what to imitate something the results show that with monkeys they used for understanding with humans they used for both to understand and to imitate but it could be to get busy with their this.