neurons,which fire both when an animal does a task and when it watches another animal perform the same task,were eventually dubbed“mirror neurons,”as they help the observer of an action “min-or”what is going on in the protagonist's brain.
Marco Iacoboni,a neuroscientist at California's UCLA School
of Medicine,believes that mirror neurons allow humans to merge our subjective experience with that of another“Mirror neurons suggest that we pretend to be in another person's mental shoes,”he said“In fact,with mirror neurons,we do not have to pretend,we practically are in another person's mind”The monkey in the experiment was, through the researcher,“experiencing”what it was like to pick up the snack.
Researcher V.S.Ramachandran suggests that mirror neurons