What are mirror neurons? Explain mirror neurons in humans.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. Mirror neurons, found in humans, are activated when an individual performs a motor act or observes another individual engaging in the same act. Mirror neurons in humans are also connected with emotions. Certain regions of the brain-particularly in the frontal lobe-are active when people experience emotions such as disgust, happiness, pain, and also when they observe another person experiencing an emotion (Rizzolati & Fabbri-Destro, 2011). It thus appears that there is a neural basis for empathy-that is, the identification or vicarious experiencing of feelings in others based on the observation of visual and other cues. It has also been suggested that mirror neurons are connected with the built-in human capacity to acquire language (Corballis, 2010). Mirror neurons are also apparently connected with gender differences in empathy (females show more of it) and the instinctive human ability to acquire language (Arbib, 2015; Brucker et al., 2015).
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