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Cells That Read Minds

Posted by ADP on Friday, November 2, 2012, In : SANDRA BLAKESLEE 
On a hot summer day 15 years ago in Parma, Italy, a monkey sat in a special laboratory chair waiting for researchers to return from lunch. Thin wires had been implanted in the region of its brain involved in planning and carrying out movements.
  Cells That Read Minds
Published: January 10, 2006

Every time the monkey grasped and moved an object, some cells in that brain region would fire, and a monitor would register a sound: brrrrrip, brrrrrip, brrrrrip.

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Cells That Read Minds

Posted by ADP on Thursday, January 12, 2012, In : SANDRA BLAKESLEE 
Leigh Wells

MONKEY SEE When a monkey watches a researcher bring an object—an ice cream cone, for example— to his mouth, the same brain neurons fire as when the monkey brings a peanut to its own mouth. In the early 1990's, Italian researchers discovered this phenomenon and named the cells "mirror neurons." More Photos >

Published: January 10, 2006

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