• Question: How do you find out how the brain is reactent to the brain?

    Asked by catherine35 to Ian on 16 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Ian van der Linde

      Ian van der Linde answered on 16 Jun 2011:


      Not sure exactly what you mean, so I’ll do my best. One person’s brain contains mirror neurons, brain cells who’s job it is to represent what we think is going on in other people’s brains. That’s why when somebody smiles, it makes us smile, and if we see somebody hit their finger with a hammer, we’d screw up our faces and grab our finger too! These mirror neurons exist so that we can understand and empathise with people around us – if you like, our brain “reacts” to the state of the brains around us by trying to represent what’s going on!

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