mirror neurons

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• Being ‘on the same wavelength’: the neuroscience of social interaction

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 579
  Located in the brain’s “mirror neurons” is the physiological mechanism for social interaction. Parts of our brains become active when we see something in motion, for example. ‘It seems we are not just observers of the social scene but that we automatically share the experiences and emotions of the people we ...
  3 days ago

• Mirror system activity for action and language is embedded in the integration of dorsal and ventral pathways

  
  COMD News — Authority: 157
  We develop the view that the involvement of mirror neurons in embodied experience grounds brain structures that underlie language, but that many other brain regions are involved. We stress the cooperation between the dorsal and ventral streams in praxis and language. Both have perceptual and motor schemas but the ...
  1 week ago

• The fMRI of understanding others regret.

  
  Deric Bownds' MindBlog — Authority: 470
  Rizzolatti and colleagues carry the mirror neuron story to an even higher level in a study of regret: Previous studies showed that the understanding of others basic emotional experiences is based on a “resonant” mechanism, i.e., on the reactivation, in the observers brain, of the cerebral areas associated with ...
  1 week ago

• Are you promoting yawning in your mediations? If not, you may want to rethink that

  
  Brains On Purpose — Authority: 455
  Yawning can affect the way we interact with each other. Read what neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Newberg has to say about that mouth-opened-wide action. From "Yawn: It’s one of the best things you can do for your brain" (Penn Gazette): Several recent brain-scan studies have shown that yawning evokes a unique neural ...
  1 week ago

• Who Shoulders Blame and Why Should We Care?

  
  Brain Based Biz — Authority: 107
  Ever miss seeing a person in your side-view mirror? When something goes wrong, pointing a fingers more often a first reactions rather than admitting a mistake? Ever wonder why blaming someone else comes so easily? Photo by a2gemma Consider this scenario... At work, a note with an outlined project got lost in ...
  1 week ago

• Origins of empathetic yawning?

  
  Deric Bownds' MindBlog — Authority: 470
  Interesting observations by Palagi et al : Yawn contagion in humans has been proposed to be related to our capacity for empathy. It is presently unclear whether this capacity is uniquely human or shared with other primates, especially monkeys. Here, we show that in gelada baboons (Theropithecus gelada) yawning is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Holiday Blues for Business Boom

  
  Brain Leaders and Learners — Authority: 119
  Ever notice how Thanksgiving and Christmas tend to bring out blues in some and blessings in others? Or how lonely people see vast spaces between themselves and others – even at festive  holiday tables? First glances  show people blessed with close family and  friends feel blessed over holidays while those ...
  2 weeks ago

• Party On, Dude

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Unless you have alienated everyone around you, in the next two months you are likely to be invited to at least one party. If you take the perspective of a visitor from outer space, parties are actually sort of weird: "The humans gather in groups and consume food and other substances that make them dizzy. Using ...
  3 weeks ago

• Video Games: Entertaining, Educational or Dangerous?

  
  gnovis - Georgetown University's Journal of Communication, Culture & Technology (CCT) — Authority: 124
  Video games are fun and addictive. I cannot argue against this. I have my own troubled past with them. When I was in college I wasted enormous amounts of time playing games. Later, this interest with games became a professional interest and I began graduate school with the hope of doing research on how computer games ...
  5 weeks ago

• Writer’s Panic

  
  The Woo Woo Teacup Journal — Authority: 127
  Daughter had a serious case of Writer’s Panic last evening. Writer’s Panic is three steps beyond simple Writer’s Block. If you don’t have to write, Writer’s Block can make you much more interested in cleaning the cat box and sweeping the stairs than facing the computer screen. Sure, you can mumble about ...
  6 weeks ago

• Encouragement

  
  Authspot — Authority: 560
  As I write this last article about the encouragement chapter of Kidztar Publishing’s MirrorMeBook ™, I have a smile from ear to ear. My mind is wandering with blissful thoughts of my children. The first time my daughter Chloe finished reading her first book. Her big blue eyes lit with confidence; her pride shone ...
  6 weeks ago

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