Researchers from Denmark released a new study on Feb. 24 showing that specific brain cells called “mirror neurons” may help people interpret the actions they see others perform. Mirror neurons are ...

Just two weeks of mirror play changed brain activity in four-month-old babies, offering new clues about how the social brain develops.

A new class of brain cells -- mirror neurons -- are active both when people perform an action and when they watch it being performed. Some scientists speculate that a mirror system in people forms the ...

It isn’t until about two years of age that a human being can recognize the image in the mirror as a reflection of herself. It takes time for us to pass the mirror test. And we’re pretty special in ...

This is according to a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, led by the collaboration between Giacomo Rizzolatti of the University of Parma, the scientist who ...

The mirror mechanism is a basic brain mechanism that transforms sensory representations of others' behaviour into one's own motor or visceromotor representations concerning that behaviour. According ...

Life has its ups and downs. It’s how you handle the situation that shows your character. This is one of the most important lessons that Coreen Scott, 17, of CedarBridge Academy learned while taking ...