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Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions, Emotions, and Experience by Giacomo Rizzolatti, Corrado Sinigaglia

Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions, Emotions, and Experience Giacomo Rizzolatti, Corrado Sinigaglia ebook
Page: 257
Format: pdf
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019921798X, 9780199217984

A recent discovery in the brains of primates, mirror neurons are special neurons that show activity both when a subject performs an action and when it observes the same action performed by another. This class of brain cells apparently act like neural Wi-Fi that help us detect someone else's emotions and create a quick shared experience. Think about what happens to you when you're near someone who yawns. This skill serves an To me, the most breathtaking idea I've ever heard is that each thought a person ever has, every moment of experience, of insight, of reflection, of aspiration, is equivalent to a pattern of brain cells firing in space and time. The audience sharing this experience has a secondary mirroring function with the individual viewer of validating the emotion perhaps by some resonance of the mirror neurons. While observing monkeys' brains, they noticed that certain cells activated both when a monkey performed an action and when that monkey watched another monkey perform the same action. That's mirror neurons being activated. In a 2008 Harvard Business Review article, “Social Intelligence and the Biology of Leadership,” Goleman and Boyatzis reported on the behavioral neuroscience discovery of mirror neurons in our brains. Therefore, they're constructing a theory of your mind—of your intention—which is important for all kinds of social interaction. You may use this space to share your thoughts or to pose questions for panelists. I wonder if you could elaborate on the role of mirror neurons in affective experiences, in emotional experiences. Within this new worldview of medicine, scientific research has demonstrated that our brains are biopsychosocial organs and wire us to those around us into an ever-evolving web of social relations. Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other's mindsAt TEDGlobal 2009, Saxe delves into our amazing capacity to identify and predict others' emotions and actions, and how this ability is learned throughout childhood.