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 ...

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 ...

Monkey chews through car parts at safari park A mother and son were stunned after a monkey chewed off their car's wing mirror and snapped the vehicle's indicator. The family encountered the ...

Kawai's first experiment demonstrated that monkeys exhibited an immediate response to images of snakes but not to images of salamanders, implying a specific fear of snakes.

Are the dentate neurons better at differentiating the direction of the cue when the gap direction is up/right vs. left/right? These data have now been included in the new Supplementary Figure 2; we ...

What is a woolly monkey? An animal called a woolly monkey seems like it should live in the frozen north, not the sweltering Amazon Basin. But the thick coat of fur covering these large primates ...

"I’m very aware that it’s gonna be a bumpy road ahead but I’m confident, upbeat, and ready to fight and I hope to be out the other side of the initial treatment in 6-8 months time" ...

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Researchers identified the monkey based on his striking, almond-shaped eyes—though they can’t be absolutely certain it’s the same animal. “It’s difficult to recognize, but when you are a ...

Using new telemetric devices, researchers recorded the activity of hundreds of neurons from the motor regions of the brains of monkeys that were completely free to express spontaneous behavior ...