The Myth Of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscien... Here

Gregory Hickok, a linguistics professor at UC Irvine, spent years watching the world fall in love with "mirror neurons."

Hickok noticed a major flaw in the hype. If mirror neurons were necessary for understanding actions, then people with damaged motor systems shouldn't be able to understand what they see. The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscien...

Hickok argues that the brain is more like a sophisticated than a simple mirror. Gregory Hickok, a linguistics professor at UC Irvine,

Discovered in the 1990s in the brains of macaque monkeys, these cells fired both when a monkey grabbed a peanut and when it watched a human grab one. The scientific community went wild. Suddenly, mirror neurons were the "DNA of psychology." Experts claimed they were the secret to empathy, language, and even why we enjoy watching sports. a linguistics professor at UC Irvine