Findings

• if MNs are the basis of social sensitivity and cognitions we expect to find differences in the functioning of MNs between female and mal. Cheung found when men and women were shown hand actions brain activity in MNs of females were significantly stronger than males
• Inserting electrodes into small groups of neural brain cells is unethical to do in humans. However the brain regions behind social cognitions and social cognitions themselves are much more complex in humans than animals
• Hadjikhani found structural brain scans have shown smaller average thickness in pars opercularus( a region ruch in mirror neurons) in participants on the autism spectrum. Also other studies have also shown lower activity in brain areas associated with MN in autistic people
• Hicock stated we only know mirror neurons by what they do and that we cannot identify individual cells or point to their differences from other neurons