Mirror neurons received significant media attention in the 2000s and were painted by some scientists as the key to many of our advanced social abilities. However, many of the more significant ...

During tummy time, a mirror can motivate your baby to lift their head, keep it up, and look around. For babies who usually cry during this time, propping a safe mirror in front of them may ...

Since their discovery in the monkey brain, it has been suggested that mirror neurons mediate the mimicking of behaviour in primates and perhaps also underlie empathy and language acquisition in ...

Mirror neurons were identified in monkeys as neurons that fire both when the monkey performs a particular action and when it sees that action being performed. Do humans also have mirror neurons?

From this age, the human hippocampus can encode short-term memory traces, according to a pair of American researchers in the journal 'Science.' ...