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noun
- 1. a brain cell that reacts both when a particular action is performed and when it is only observed: "the neural basis for empathy may be a system of mirror neurons"
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- Mirror neuron
Type of neuron associated with empathy
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. Mirror neurons are not always physiologically distinct from other types of neurons in the brain; their main differentiating factor is their response patterns. By this defin... Wikipedia
