Mirror neurons are a type of brain cell that is activated both when performing an action and when observing another individual perform that same action, a process thought to help an individual ...

Human imitation is more complicated than simply viewing and copying an action, even for kids says Greg Hickok.(Ebby May/Getty Images) In the early 1990s a team of neuroscientists reported a new class ...

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