[MD] Social level for humans only

[ADRIE KINTZIGER]

There is a lot to find i think on wiki-- The triggering switches are called
"mirror neurons"
It is still terra incognita for most part, everybody seems to have this
mirror neurons, they fire simultaniously
and fast if a behaviour is observed.i  was aware of it briefly.
Greetzz, Adrie



2010/8/27 David Thomas <combinedefforts at earthlink.net>

> All,
>
> I caught a episode of Charlie Rose's special Brain Series last night titled
> Social Brain. It's a roundtable discussion with researchers from a wide
> variety of areas presenting and discussing their findings related to the
> brain. A couple on interesting points bearing on this thread.
>
> One was a genetics researcher studying tiny soil worms that eat bacteria.
> The worms exhibit a behavior they just couldn't figure out. For some reason
> on a regular basis the worms would clump up together in an knot and squirm
> around each other. But not all worms, just most. By marking them it was
> clear that they split into two groups. Those that regularly exhibited this
> behavior and those that seldom or rarely did. They eliminated physical
> characteristic, sex, food, disease, and every other thing they could think
> of and finally were left with "it must in some way be social" They did
> genetic testing a sure enough they found a difference in one gene that is
> thought to have some relationship to social behavior in other species.
>
> Then an Italian researcher studying similarities between monkey and human
> brains found a similar area in both humans and monkeys that mirror each
> other's activities. He thinks it help in reading the intentions of others
> and learning social skills. Electrodes are tuned to single cell activities
> in both a monkey and man. When one or the other makes a motion, moving an
> apple to one's mouth, the cell firing in the one moving and the one
> watching
> nearly simultaneously fire in nearly identical patterns. And it works both
> ways man mirrors monkey, monkey mirrors man. He thinks this could also help
> prepare children to speak. Baby watches, while brain is internally
> mirroring, mother speaking. Eventual all this internal mimicking may set up
> patterns for vocal and facial muscles to duplicate later.
>
> Ve..rrrry interesting.
>
> Dave
>
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