Mirror Neurons or Associating Neurons
Developing Intelligence has a great post on why we may be missing the point of Mirror Neurons.
A recent review paper by Adele Diamond suggests that research on mirror neurons and research on the developmental time course of abstract thinking may be ‘missing the forest for the trees.’ In other words, the important feature of premotor and iVLPFC is not that they contain mirror neurons, or that fMRI shows them to be active during generalization tasks. Instead, the important feature of this region is that it is fundamentally responsible for associating things that are not physically connected.
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