Empathy is feeling and entering into another's feelings. Apparently, neuroscientists have located which sort of neurons are responsible for empathy. These neurons are called mirror neurons, and:
"Mirror neurons suggest that we pretend to be in another person's mental shoes," says Marco Iacoboni, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine. "In fact, with mirror neurons we do not have to pretend, we practically are in another person's mind."
Monday, May 2. 2005
Empathy located in the Brain
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