mirror neuron system

• who discovered mirror neurones - rizzolatti et al
• rizzolatti - recording neural activity in a monkey - researcher picked up lunch and there was brain activity for the monkey - brain waves activated as if the monkey was doing it
• mn explaining imitation - mn enode the activity of another person as if it was carrying out the same activity
• behaviour regulation - mn is offline - helps you do it in the future
• online - watch and immediatly copy
• online cany happen due to damage to pfc
• gallese and goldman - mirror neurones respond not just to observed actions but to intentions behind the action as well
• lacobani et al - demontrated that mn encode the what but also why behind behaviour
• eisenburg - mn are the defence mechanism to understand anothers perspective use mn to make judgements on how to behave
• crit - hard to research
• mukamel - used fmris and recorded activity of a single neurone - 21 patients treated for epilepsy - mns showed up in unexpected places - saw anti mn which inhibited an action
• crit - heyes - mns are the outcome of classical conditioning not evolution