May 8, 2007 — In a small study of autistic children, severe mirror-neuron system dysfunction correlated with high impaired ability to imitate facial expressions or empathize with others. The ...

New research suggests that a brain system called the mirror neuron system, previously implicated as being dysfunctional in autism appears to function normally in individuals with autism spectrum ...

Seeing is doing – at least it is when mirror neurons are working normally. But in autistic individuals, say researchers from the University of California, San Diego, the brain circuits that enable ...

New imaging research at UCLA shows children with autism have virtually no activity in a key part of the brain's mirror neuron system while imitating and observing emotions. Symptoms of autism include ...

Mirror neurons, it seems, are of the utmost importance in human mind. If the same brain region that controls action also supports perception, then it explains, for example, why spectators at a boxing ...

Educational Psychology Review, Vol. 21, No. 1, Advancing Cognitive Load Theory Through Interdisciplinary Research (March 2009), pp. 21-30 (10 pages) Learning by observing and imitating others has long ...

"It seems we're wired to see other people as similar to us, rather than different. At the root, as humans we identify the person we're facing as someone like ourselves." —Neuroscientist Vittorio ...

From an evolutionary standpoint, mirror neurons might protect a species from repeating fatal errors observed in another, without having to die in the process. The ability to learn from other people’s ...

For 20 minutes Andrea McColl, a research assistant at the University of Southern California, has been repeating the same string of nonsense syllables, changing her intonation on cue. When a smiling ...

Is it really possibly to put yourself in someone else's shoes? Though this may seem like an old adage that's easier said than done, a wave of new research suggests that our brains are actually wired ...