There is a lot to find i think on wiki-- The triggering switches are called "mirror neurons" It is still terra incognita for most part, everybody seems to have this mirror neurons, they fire simultaniously and fast if a behaviour is observed.i was aware of it briefly. Greetzz, Adrie
2010/8/27 David Thomas <[email protected]> > All, > > I caught a episode of Charlie Rose's special Brain Series last night titled > Social Brain. It's a roundtable discussion with researchers from a wide > variety of areas presenting and discussing their findings related to the > brain. A couple on interesting points bearing on this thread. > > One was a genetics researcher studying tiny soil worms that eat bacteria. > The worms exhibit a behavior they just couldn't figure out. For some reason > on a regular basis the worms would clump up together in an knot and squirm > around each other. But not all worms, just most. By marking them it was > clear that they split into two groups. Those that regularly exhibited this > behavior and those that seldom or rarely did. They eliminated physical > characteristic, sex, food, disease, and every other thing they could think > of and finally were left with "it must in some way be social" They did > genetic testing a sure enough they found a difference in one gene that is > thought to have some relationship to social behavior in other species. > > Then an Italian researcher studying similarities between monkey and human > brains found a similar area in both humans and monkeys that mirror each > other's activities. He thinks it help in reading the intentions of others > and learning social skills. Electrodes are tuned to single cell activities > in both a monkey and man. When one or the other makes a motion, moving an > apple to one's mouth, the cell firing in the one moving and the one > watching > nearly simultaneously fire in nearly identical patterns. And it works both > ways man mirrors monkey, monkey mirrors man. He thinks this could also help > prepare children to speak. Baby watches, while brain is internally > mirroring, mother speaking. Eventual all this internal mimicking may set up > patterns for vocal and facial muscles to duplicate later. > > Ve..rrrry interesting. > > Dave > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > -- parser Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
