Page |79 monkey had learned to pucker up his attribute our past experience as the lips, the neuron would fire both when the interpretation of the present observation. monkey did this or when the monkey Imitation when observing an action observed another monkey (or even a might occur because our motor system is human) doing this. These motor neurons stimulated by observing an action. have been dubbed “mirror neurons”, Coordination of action could occur since they respond during both execution because in representing others’ actions of action and during observation of the as if they were our own, our brains may same action in a mirror-like fashion.’ be able to compute the time when we Mirror neurons are not active during can act without disrupting the other observation of an appropriate action if person. This is just the kind of process there is no goal (1.e., the object is absent) that is described in Gun Semin’s chapter or when an appropriate object is when he describes how groups of people presented alone. Mirror neurons have can synchronize their actions like been discovered both for mouth actions clapping together. and hand actions, and for both visual and ' : ‘ : From monkey brains to human auditory perception of actions. . . intention . SESing a prewadusly leaned Of course, relating responses in action performed by someone else seems : oe . . monkey brains to human brains is to resonate in some neurons in the motor . : 2 . . . neither direct nor simple. Parts of the system almost as if the action were being F : ‘ monkey brain and and parts of the performed by the observer. It is as if the . : i ; human brain that putatively correspond, observed action stimulates some motor extanat ; wes salt 2 ne > : . while similar, are not identical in neurons to “remember” what it was like . . . . number or size or location, and probably to perform action. Of course, this is not . : : . do not do exactly the same things, since memory in the overt sense of conscious : monkey