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A mirror neuron is a neuron that fires both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another. Thus, the neuron "mirrors" the behavior of the other, as though the observer were itself acting.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mirror neuron | MeSH | D059167 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mirror neuron | is a | neuron that fires both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another | 0.90 | text |
| Marco Iacoboni have argued that mirror neuron systems in the human brain help humans understand the actions | instance of | Neuroscientists | 0.80 | text |
| intentions of other people | instance of | Neuroscientists | 0.80 | text |
| empathy | instance of | Iacoboni has argued that mirror neurons are the neural basis of the human capacity for emotions | 0.80 | text |
| body perception | instance of | They may furnish a neural basis for predicting another individual's subsequent actions and inferring intention.Understanding intention can be broken down into various stages | 0.80 | text |
| action identification | instance of | They may furnish a neural basis for predicting another individual's subsequent actions and inferring intention.Understanding intention can be broken down into various stages | 0.80 | text |
| in speech shadowing | instance of | such vocal imitation can occur without comprehension | 0.80 | text |
| echolalia.Further evidence for this link comes from an earlier study in which the brain activity of two participants was measured using fMRI while they were gesturing words to each other using hand gestures with a game of charades | instance of | such vocal imitation can occur without comprehension | 0.80 | text |
| Hickok | instance of | According to scientists | 0.80 | text |
| Pascolo | instance of | According to scientists | 0.80 | text |
| and Dinstein | instance of | According to scientists | 0.80 | text |
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