Re: Mirror Neurons, Morality and Video games
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mirror neurons are not really proven. at least not in humans. they are in monkeys, but they still are not understood that well.
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It seems from the New Scientist portion that some have been individually identified in humans now ..
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First discovered in macaque monkeys 11 years ago, this new class of cells generated a booming field of research. Yet until now, evidence for human mirror neurons could only be inferred from functional MRI studies, which measure general patterns of brain activity, and presumed similarities between humans and other primates.
Marco Iacoboni of the Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, described his team's observations of mirror neurons last week at the annual Society for Neuroscience conference in San Diego, California. His team recorded the actions of 286 individual neurons in ...
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it's a fresh discovery, which was why I'm asking for some up-to-date links that deal with the implications so I can follow the developments better.
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