Reflections on Mirror Neurons The author's main point in the article is that mirror neuron help with imitating what we see. The author wants the reader to understand that humans and monkeys think in a similar way when mirror neuron is being studied. The author uses professional researchers to explain the finding of mirror neurons and their experiments. The author explains that the monkeys learn by visual models as well as humans. The monkeys learned by seeing food that they want just by seeing it once understand that it is food and are drawn to it later. Humans gain new habits by seeing a person first doing habits and they are drawn to.”Mimicry in humans reflects social cues.” The author's findings suggest that the brain relies on social
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The article also discusses the way a neuron in a brain is working when the study is being conducted, “Like monkeys, humans have mirror neurons that fire when we both perceive and take an action.” From the textbook, the definition of a mirror neuron is brain cells that fire when a person or animal observes another carrying out an action; these neurons appear to be involved in empathy, imitation, and reading emotions(page 452.) The whole chapter about emotion, stress, and health gives information about how neurons in a human brain or animals work and how they involve the mirror neuron. The action potential is also present in the article when the neuron is activated by what the subject views and wants to mimic, electrical impulses travel to the next axon to create emotion for the object viewed by the …show more content…
The way that people see or read about trends in the media and want to copy the trend to make themselves popular. When celebrities start trends the media I quick to talk about them and the general public runs to the opportunity to copy the celebrity. Scientists that are studying about neurons and how neurons play a role in humans are still being studied with people who have stress. As I read the article in Forbes about Psychology studies in 2016 with regards to neuron damage causing depression or Alzheimer's. I think that monkeys and humans react to mimicry because it is in their nature to be curious and react to want they see by mimicking the person that they are interested
The article also discusses the way a neuron in a brain is working when the study is being conducted, “Like monkeys, humans have mirror neurons that fire when we both perceive and take an action.” From the textbook, the definition of a mirror neuron is brain cells that fire when a person or animal observes another carrying out an action; these neurons appear to be involved in empathy, imitation, and reading emotions(page 452.) The whole chapter about emotion, stress, and health gives information about how neurons in a human brain or animals work and how they involve the mirror neuron. The action potential is also present in the article when the neuron is activated by what the subject views and wants to mimic, electrical impulses travel to the next axon to create emotion for the object viewed by the …show more content…
The way that people see or read about trends in the media and want to copy the trend to make themselves popular. When celebrities start trends the media I quick to talk about them and the general public runs to the opportunity to copy the celebrity. Scientists that are studying about neurons and how neurons play a role in humans are still being studied with people who have stress. As I read the article in Forbes about Psychology studies in 2016 with regards to neuron damage causing depression or Alzheimer's. I think that monkeys and humans react to mimicry because it is in their nature to be curious and react to want they see by mimicking the person that they are interested