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Mirror neurons: the neural foundation of empathetic mimicry and behavioral synchronization

Lena Bauer

Lena Bauer

2026-03-21
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Through intricate neurobiological processes, the human brain possesses the innate capacity to spontaneously detect and internalize observed behaviors in others, thereby enabling not only the replication of their actions but also the profound experience of analogous emotional states. At the core of this phenomenon lie mirror neurons—specialized neural cells whose activity forms the substrate for the mental "decoding" of intentions and affective states in other individuals. To comprehensively grasp this remarkable mechanism, it is essential to delve into neurophysiological research focused on the dynamics of emotional responsiveness and their interplay with the mirror neuron system’s functional architecture.

The story of the discovery of mirror neurons

At the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, Italian scientists discovered mirror neurons in monkeys. This finding was about groups of motor neurons. It was observed that when a monkey performs a rather complex activity, a certain group of nerve cells is activated, which also reacts when the monkey observes the same movement by another monkey. Similarly functioning groups of neurons were also detected in humans. This means that the interpretation of the observed behavior takes place in the recipient's brain through a kind of simulation.

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