Mirror neurons are a type of brain cell that is activated both when performing an action and when observing another individual perform that same action, a process thought to help an individual ...

"It seems we're wired to see other people as similar to us, rather than different. At the root, as humans we identify the person we're facing as someone like ourselves." —Neuroscientist Vittorio ...

Is it really possibly to put yourself in someone else's shoes? Though this may seem like an old adage that's easier said than done, a wave of new research suggests that our brains are actually wired ...

New research suggests that a brain system called the mirror neuron system, previously implicated as being dysfunctional in autism appears to function normally in individuals with autism spectrum ...

In a recent study published in the journal Cell, researchers utilized a genetically encoded mirror-TRAP strategy to investigate the functional importance of aggression-mirroring neurons. Social ...

New research suggests that scientists could make a good guess based on how the brain responds when people watch someone else experience pain. The study found that those responses predict whether ...

Mirror neurons -- cells that are activated in response to seeing other people act, ostensibly creating a picture in the brain of the self involved in that same action -- have received a lot of ...

Sometimes scientific progress emerges from accidental findings. In the 1980s a group of Italian neuroscientists in the laboratory of Giacomo Rizzolatti, in Parma, implanted microelectrodes into motor ...

A neuron made in the lab now works almost like one in the body. A team of engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has announced the creation of an artificial neuron with electrical ...

It is wartime. You and your fellow refugees are hiding from enemy soldiers, when a baby begins to cry. You cover her mouth to block the sound. If you remove your hand, her crying will draw the ...