THE MIRROR MECHANISM

Why do you wince when a coworker gets blamed right in front of you?

Mirror neurons let the brain simulate what others feel, before conscious thought catches up. Empathy often starts as an involuntary echo, not a decision.

#MirrorMechanism #SocialNeuroscience #EmpathyCircuit

A new study by Srinivasan et al. used LUMO at a music festival to explore how the auditory cortex responds to emotional & social listening: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#fNIRS #Neuroimaging #DiffuseOpticalTomography #SocialNeuroscience