Evidence in favor of the notion that mirror neurons mediate action understanding came from experiments in which monkeys were not allowed to see the actions performed by others, but were given ...

It's second nature, thanks in part to brain cells called "mirror neurons." They're active when we jump up and down. They're active when we wiggle our toes, or make any other motion with our body.

Mirror neurons were first discovered in the brains of macaque monkeys in the 1990s; since then, similar neurons have been identified in the brains of birds, mice, and, perhaps most notably ...

Earlier studies with monkeys revealed that brain cells called mirror neurons respond both when we do something, like pick up an object, and when we simply watch someone else do it. It was known ...

This device not only recorded electrical activity of the brain, but also shone red lights onto its surface to turn on the neurons. Then they introduced the monkeys to a new video game, one that ...

The human brain is approximately three times larger than monkeys and contains around 16 billion neurons. In contrast, a ...

"A practical consequence of our findings is that we can now reconstruct a face that a monkey is seeing by monitoring the electrical activity of only 205 neurons in the monkey's brain." When placed ...

Since their discovery in the monkey brain, it has been suggested that mirror neurons mediate the mimicking of behaviour in primates and perhaps also underlie empathy and language acquisition in ...

Scientists have restored nerve cells destroyed by a condition similar to Parkinson's disease, in monkeys ... years after having precursor dopamine neurons derived from human stem cells ...

Our new research, published in the journal Cell, reveals how neurons – the cells responsible ... flies and nematodes to zebrafish, mice and monkeys. These species come from different branches ...

The recent discovery of 'mirror neurons' in the macaque—premotor neurons that fire both when monkeys perform an action and when they observe another animal performing that action—by the group ...