Re: Mirror neurons

From: Bill Spight (bspight@pacbell.net)
Date: Tue Jan 30 2001 - 19:52:19 GMT

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From: Bill Spight <bspight@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: Mirror neurons
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    Dear Mark,

    Thanks for the additional information. :-)

    > So, it looks like these experiments have been entirely with primates.
    >

    And with looking. What about listening? If mirror neurons are a good
    category, maybe they are used in listening, as well.

    Have they distinguished neurons that fire when we observe someone doing
    what we can also do (and are involved in our doing that) from neurons
    that fire when we think about doing that but are not observing the
    behavior?

    Many thanks,

    Bill

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