The Myth Of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscien... -

Gregory Hickok, a linguistics professor at UC Irvine, spent years watching the world fall in love with "mirror neurons."

Hickok noticed a major flaw in the hype. If mirror neurons were necessary for understanding actions, then people with damaged motor systems shouldn't be able to understand what they see. The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscien...

Hickok pointed out that while macaques have these neurons, they don't have human-level empathy or language. Have mirror neurons but don't imitate well. Gregory Hickok, a linguistics professor at UC Irvine,

Yet, patients with severe paralysis or speech production issues (like Broca’s aphasia) can still perfectly understand the actions and speech of others. The "mirror" was broken, but the understanding remained. 🐒 The Monkey vs. The Human Have mirror neurons but don't imitate well

Master imitators, yet evidence for a dedicated "mirror system" is messy. 🌐 The Real Neuroscience

We understand others through high-level conceptual processing.