Description
Includes a new Afterword by the Author
What accounts for our remarkable ability to get inside someone else’s head–to grasp what she or he is thinking and feeling? Marco Iacoboni, a leading neuroscientist, explains the groundbreaking research into mirror neurons, the “smart cells” in our brain that let us to take note others. From imitation to morality, from political affiliations to consumer alternatives, mirror neurons are relevant to myriad aspects of social cognition. Mirroring Other people is the primary book for the overall reader in this revolutionary new science.