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Location of Mirror Neurons |
Located in the front of the brain in the frontal lobes |
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Function of Mirror Neurons |
A set of motor neurons that are activated when watching someone do an action. It is a virtual reality simulation of another person's actions. |
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Significance of Mirror Neurons |
Must be involved in imitation and emulation; done by adopting the other person's point of view |
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Importance of Imitation and Emulation |
1. Sudden emergence of the mirror neuron system allowed for actions to be learned in a matter of minutes (Lamarckian) than years (Darwinian) 2. Instead of a discovery dying out, that knowledge spread horizontally (throughout the population) or vertically (throughout generations) |
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Process of Preventing and Permitting the Experience of Another Person's Sensations |
1. There's no real distinctiveness between your consciousness and other people's consciousness. 2. When watching someone being touched, we empathize with that person but do not physically experience it. A feedback signal vetoes the signal of the mirror neuron preventing you from consciously experiencing it (because a receptor is not being stimulated). However, if you numb a limb and watch someone else being touched, you feel it because all that is separating you from other people is your skin. You experience that person's touch in your mind because the barrier between you and other human beings is dissolved. |
