Just two weeks of mirror play changed brain activity in four-month-old babies, offering new clues about how the social brain develops.

A new class of brain cells -- mirror neurons -- are active both when people perform an action and when they watch it being performed. Some scientists speculate that a mirror system in people forms the ...

They’ve been used to explain autism, empathy and why porn turns us on. Now some of the past findings that mirror neurons have been said to explain have been called into question by new research which ...

Mirror neurons, it seems, are of the utmost importance in human mind. If the same brain region that controls action also supports perception, then it explains, for example, why spectators at a boxing ...

Mirror neurons are cells located in the premotor and posterior parietal cortex of the macaque brain. These cells fire when the monkey performs a goal-directed action and when it sees somebody else ...

The mind is but a mirror, Indian yogis used to say. Just watch it flow, as if you were a distant observer and you will calm down and not be enslaved by your thoughts. Easier said than done. But what ...

In the mid-1990s, scientists at the University of Parma, in Italy, made a discovery so novel that it shifted the way psychologists discuss the brain. After researchers implanted electrodes into the ...