X-Message-Number: 15548 From: "Jan Coetzee" <> Subject: Mind readers are real Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:13:02 -0500 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0018_01C08E36.DB623B00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Vittorio Gallese, Giacomo Rizzolatti and their colleagues at the University of Parma have identified an entirely new class of neurons. These neurons are active when their owners perform a certain task, and in this respect are wholly unremarkable. But, more interestingly, the same neurons fire when their owner watches someone else perform that same task. The team has dubbed the novel nerve cells "mirror" neurons, because they seem to be firing in sympathy, reflecting or perhaps simulating the actions of others. http://www.newscientist.com/features/features_22751.html ------=_NextPart_000_0018_01C08E36.DB623B00 Content-Type: text/html; [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15548