Isn’t it funny how after you’ve first heard of something the concept keeps popping up again and again, because now you recognise it.
There was something about mirror neurons on the radio the other day. I think it is mirror neurons that were meant at the conference, not mirror genes. My error. So I have now found out that mirror neurons are fired when one performs an action and when we observe an action so the neuron mirrors the action and it is as if we were performing it ourselves. So this phenomenon has apparently been useful in rehabilitation of patients, for example.
Even if like many I am sceptical about neuroscience being the answer to all our questions about perception, it is nonetheless interesting to think that the brain might recognise gesture in drawing as a result of mirror neurons firing off.
