Mirror neurons were first discovered in the brains of macaque monkeys in the 1990s; since then, similar neurons have been identified in the brains of birds, mice, and, perhaps most notably ...

Since their discovery in the monkey brain, it has been suggested that mirror neurons mediate the mimicking of behaviour in primates and perhaps also underlie empathy and language acquisition in ...

Evidence in favor of the notion that mirror neurons mediate action understanding came from experiments in which monkeys were not allowed to see the actions performed by others, but were given ...

Caggiano and colleagues found in their experiments that, in monkeys, mirror neurons - a system previously thought to be involved only with understanding actions -- differentially respond to ...

They were able to predict how long the rhesus monkeys were willing to wait for a higher reward and when they decided to ...