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From: "Jan Coetzee" <>
Subject: Mind readers are real
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:13:02 -0500

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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


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