{"id":1103,"date":"2007-01-21T13:09:48","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T17:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2010-12-28T04:49:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T08:49:55","slug":"mirror-neurons-imitation-learning-and-empathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2007\/mirror-neurons-imitation-learning-and-empathy","title":{"rendered":"Mirror Neurons, Imitation Learning and Empathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1104\" title=\"mirror_girl\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/mirror_girl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scholarpedia.org\/article\/Mirror_neurons\" target=\"_blank\">Mirror\u00a0Neurons<\/a> help explain why watching someone perform a task is almost as important as doing it yourself. The human brain responds to both doing and watching in the same way. Mirror neurons  may also play\u00a0an important role in social interaction and the <strong>development of empathy<\/strong>. Researchers recently\u00a0proposed that their\u00a0dysfunction may explain some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?articleID=000B7F38-893D-152E-88E283414B7F0000\" target=\"_blank\">symptoms\u00a0of autism<\/a>. And speaking of autism, what about a possible link to <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.johnson.cornell.edu\/faculty\/waldman\/AUTISM-WALDMAN-NICHOLSON-ADILOV.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">early\u00a0television exposure<\/a>? This reinforces the <a href=\"http:\/\/aappolicy.aappublications.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/pediatrics;107\/2\/423\" target=\"_blank\">AAP &#8220;no television under 2 years of age&#8221; recommendation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mirror\u00a0Neurons help explain why watching someone perform a task is almost as important as doing it yourself. The human brain responds to both doing and watching in the same way. Mirror neurons may also play\u00a0an important role in social interaction and the development of empathy. Researchers recently\u00a0proposed that their\u00a0dysfunction may explain some of the symptoms\u00a0of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2007\/mirror-neurons-imitation-learning-and-empathy\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mirror Neurons, Imitation Learning and Empathy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2589,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions\/2589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}