"Mirror Neurons" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Neurons that fire when an animal acts or observes the same action of another thus coding the motor response. They were originally discovered in the premotor and parietal cortex of the monkey and studies have shown that neurons that have a similar mechanism are present in humans. Mirror neurons are theorized to be related to social cognition.
| Descriptor ID |
D059167
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.675.500 A11.671.487
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| Concept/Terms |
Mirror Neurons- Mirror Neurons
- Mirror Neuron
- Neuron, Mirror
- Neurons, Mirror
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