A Religious Sister, the head of a Research Center and a college lecturer, writes In View from the Ark of the Catholic Times about mirror neurons. She mentions when watching a movie or a drama we are moved by the same emotions the characters express: crying or laughing. Why are these emotions, she asks, transferred to us?
Giacomo Rizzolatti an Italian doctor and his team noticed that when a monkey placed a peanut in his mouth the motor neurons would react, and this would also be true if the researcher put a peanut in his own mouth, the same neurons in the monkey would respond, and these were called mirror neurons. This was discovered with electrodes placed in the brains of the monkeys. She mentions that in California, scientists in 2010 discovered that humans have the same mirror neurons.
