{"id":953,"date":"2009-08-16T09:22:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T13:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stacyhorn.com\/unbelievable\/?p=953"},"modified":"2009-08-16T09:22:29","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T13:22:29","slug":"mirror-neurons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"Mirror Neurons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m probably revealing my science-ignorance, but a paper was published in the\u00a0Journal of Neuroscience this month about an experiment that may have found evidence of something called mirror neurons in the human brain. \u00a0I don&#8217;t have access to the\u00a0Journal of Neuroscience paper, but I read about it in ScienceNews <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/view\/generic\/id\/46276\/title\/Neurons_play_Simon_Says\">here<\/a>. \u00a0The article by Tina Hesman Saey begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Macaque monkeys have specialized brain cells \u2014 called mirror neurons \u2014 that activate when a monkey performs an action involving an object, such as picking up a grape, or when watching someone else do the same task. The discovery of these neurons in 1996 led to speculation that they could be involved in everything from simulating others&#8217; actions to language development to autism. There was only one problem: no one had definite proof that such cells exist in humans.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The\u00a0revealing my science-ignorance part of my post is this: \u00a0if more definitive evidence is found, could mirror neurons explain the effects found in the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory ESP experiments?<\/p>\n<p>The picture below is of an early ESP machine from the\u00a0Duke Parapsychology Laboratory.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-954\" title=\"cardmachine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/cardmachine.jpg\" alt=\"cardmachine\" width=\"531\" height=\"421\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m probably revealing my science-ignorance, but a paper was published in the\u00a0Journal of Neuroscience this month about an experiment that may have found evidence of &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piV6u-fn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}