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An essential reconsideration of one of the most far-reaching theories in modern neuroscience and psychology. In 1992, a group of neuroscientists from Parma, Italy, reported a fresh category of brain skin cells uncovered in the motor unit cortex of the macaque monkey. These skin cells, later dubbed mirror neurons, responded similarly well during the monkey's own motor unit activities, such as getting an object, and while the monkey observed someone else perform similar motor unit actions. Research workers speculated that the neurons allowed the monkey to understand others by simulating their activities in its brain. Mirror neurons soon jumped varieties and took human being neuroscience and psychology by surprise. In the late 1990s theorists showed how the skin cells provided an elegantly simple new way to make clear the evolution of language, the introduction of human being empathy, and the neural foundation of autism. Inside the years that followed, a stream of scientific tests implicated mirror neurons in from schizophrenia and drug abuse to sexual orientation and contagious yawning. In The Myth of Mirror Neurons, neuroscientist Gregory Hickok reexamines the mirror neuron report and finds that it's built on a tenuous foundation - a set of codependent assumptions about mirror neuron activity and human being understanding. Sketching on a wide range of observations from focus on animal habit, modern neuroimaging, neurological disorders, and more, Hickok argues that the foundational assumptions fall season flat in light of the reality. He then explores choice explanations of mirror neuron function while illuminating essential questions about human being cognition and brain function: Why do humans imitate so prodigiously? How different are the left and right hemispheres of the mind? Why do we have two aesthetic systems? Do we need to have the ability to speak to understand speech? What's going wrong in autism? Can humans read imagination? The Myth of Mirror Neurons not only gives an instructive story about the span of scientific progress - from breakthrough to theory to revision - but also provides deep insights in to the business and function of the human brain and the type of communication and cognition.
