Mirrors in the brain
Subtitle: How our minds share actions, emotions, and experience
Contributors: Frances Anderson (Translator)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: October 26, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780199217984
Subjects: Neurosciences; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Neuroscience; Medical / Neuroscience; Cognitive Psychology; Mind & Body; Cognitive neuroscience; Mirror neurons
Description: When we witness a great actor, musician, or sportsperson performing, we share something of their experience. It become clear just how this sharing of experience is realised within the human brain. This text provides an accessible overview of mirror neurons, written by the man who first discovered them.