Watch funny videos and video clips at Break. Our editors find the best funny videos, clips and pictures for you to watch right now. Break. com. The Political Insider Impart Influence. NOVA Official Website Mirror Neurons. Mirror Neurons. PBS air date January 2. ROBERT KRULWICH Hello again. Gaze into a mirror, and what do. Well, I see my face, of course. But in my face I see moods, I see. We humans are really good at reading faces and bodies. Cause if I can look. I can learn from you, connect to you, I. Empathy is one of our finer traits, and when it happens it. Ask yourself, Why do people get so involved, so deeply, deeply involved. COMMENTATOR The Cleveland Browns are gambling on defense. ROBERT KRULWICH Why are we such suckers for sportsAnd its. We can lose it completely at the movies, at video games. Is there something about humans, humans particularly, that. Well, as it happens, scientists have an explanation for this strange. Its new. DANIEL GLASER It had never been found on a cellular level before. Watch Crying Freeman Online' title='Watch Crying Freeman Online' />ROBERT KRULWICH A set of brain cells, found on either side of. DANIEL GLASERWhat weve found is the mechanism that underlies. ROBERT KRULWICH And it began entirely by accident, at a. Parma, Italy, where a group of brain. NEURON FIRING Clack, clack, clack. ROBERT KRULWICH. So the lab had all these peanuts around, and whenever the monkey made. Mirror Neurons. Posted 01. NOVA scienceNOW Why do sports fans feel so emotionally invested in the game, reacting almost as if they were part of the game. A lethal assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time he kills, is seen swiftly and mercilessly executing three Yakuza gangsters by. The destination for all NFLrelated videos. Watch game, team player highlights, Fantasy football videos, NFL event coverage more. NEURON FIRING Clack, clack, clack. ROBERT KRULWICH. Scientists thought, Now heres a neuron thats essential to motion. Its a. Then, one day, the monkey was just sitting around, not moving at all, just. And when that scientist. Yeah, the monkeys cell fired. Now, the monkey hadnt moved, it was the human that had moved, suggesting. The head of the lab, Giacomo Rizzolatti, thought, WowGIACOMO RIZZOLATTI University of Parma The same neurons, one. It is almost unbelievable. DANIEL GLASERIt was surprising, because this cell, which was involved. ROBERT KRULWICH Some people call them monkey see, monkey do. This accidental discovery got scientists thinking, doing more tests, and. We all know that humans learn by looking and copying thats what infants. Watch Crying Freeman Online' title='Watch Crying Freeman Online' />First you look. MOTHER One, two, three, four. ROBERT KRULWICH. DONNAReady Lets see your feet this way. ROBERT KRULWICH And once youve watched and copied and. They know the moves, you. DANIEL GLASERIf you can use the years of training that you, yourself. ROBERT KRULWICH So thats why, when I head down the street. They feel my predicament because they know what its like to carry heavy. They know all about carrying. So as they watch me moving they can. Their neurons are mirroring the action. These neurons may be the brains way of translating what we see so we can. DANIEL GLASER The mirror system is the way that you tap into. ROBERT KRULWICH And people are really good at watching and. Like, with just thirteen moving dotsthats all. Whats more, tests have shown that when a person sees a movie like. And thats why sports fans tense with the action, and wince, and leap. Cause if you know the game. FOOTBALL FAN 1 Flag Flag FOOTBALL FAN 2 No, no, no flag. FOOTBALL FAN No flag. ROBERT KRULWICH. Thats why its so easy to be a sports fan. But there is more, suggests U. C. L. A. professor Marco. Iacoboni. He thinks mirror neurons tie us, not just to other peoples actions. MARCO IACOBONI University of California, Los Angeles So the. Were going to go in the scanner and what youre going to do is to. ROBERT KRULWICH To demonstrate, he put me into this very. M. R. I. brain scanner that can peer into the brain while its. And he gave me some goggles so he could show me pictures when I was in. MARCO IACOBONI So you can see here the eyeball of Robert. ROBERT KRULWICH And once he had a good view into my. MARCO IACOBONI Nice looking brain. ROBERT KRULWICH Thank you. MARCO IACOBONI Robert, youre not supposed to talk when we scan you. Watch Crying Freeman Online' title='Watch Crying Freeman Online' />ROBERT KRULWICH Sorry. Watch After The Waterfall Online Mic. Then he said, Okay, Im going to show you a bunch of faces. And for each. face, I want you to imitate it. So I did that. Then he recorded my brain while I moved my facial. MARCO IACOBONI Were going do, right away, another one. ROBERT KRULWICH Okay. Then he said Okay, same faces, but this time, dont move a muscle, just. So I looked. When we checked the results. Oh, theres my brain. Ive never seen my brain before. MARCO IACOBONI This is your mirror area. ROBERT KRULWICH Iacoboni says that the part of my brain. I make a face, the same part gets busy when I see the. Plus, when I was looking at these faces, I remember feeling extra. But when these faces came on, I felt, I dont know. I felt better, almost happy. And, in fact, at that moment I was looking at the. And when I was imitating happy faces, look. I get an even bigger. This, says Iacoboni, is a consistent result. Mirror neurons, he believes. So its. possible these neurons help us tune in to each others feelings. Thats. empathy. MARCO IACOBONI We strongly believe that thats a unifying mechanism. ROBERT KRULWICH You are saying that theres a place in my. MARCO IACOBONI Thats right. HELEN HAYES in A FAREWELL TO ARMS Oh, darling, Im going to die Dont let me die GARY COOPER in A FAREWELL TO ARMS Kat ROBERT KRULWICH And great actors instinctively know that if. HELEN HAYES in A FAREWELL TO ARMS Hold me tightDont let me. ROBERT KRULWICH. GARY COOPER in A FAREWELL TO ARMS You cant die. Youre too. brave to die DANIEL GLASERWhat actors are experts in is using their movements to. These are the experts in the mirror. V. S. RAMACHANDRAN University of California, San Diego We are. We literally read other peoples minds. I dont. mean anything psychic like telepathy, but you can adopt another persons point. LINDSAY SCHENK University of California, San Diego When you. ROBERT KRULWICH So if mirror neurons help us connect. Kids like Christian. LINDSAY SCHENK Why do you like LEGOs V. S. RAMACHANDRAN Its been known for some time that children with. ROBERT KRULWICH Christian can speak and read and write, but. LINDSAY SCHENK So, Christian, can you tell me what you did in school. CHRISTIAN Doing well. LINDSAY SCHENK Youre doing well CHRISTIANMmhmm. ROBERT KRULWICH Everybody wants to know what exactly causes. So Dr. Ramachandran and his graduate student, Lindsay Schenk, designed an. LINDSAY SCHENK So were going be reading your brainwaves with this cap. ROBERT KRULWICH They recorded brainwaves while the kids. For most people, the brainwave looks the same either way, whether. But for the kids with autism, the wave changes. V. S. RAMACHANDRAN Their brains may indeed be different in that regard. But we dont know. There needs to be. ROBERT KRULWICH But what we do know, says Ramachandran, is. More than our cousins, the. We invent dances, and handshakes, and games. We eat together. We meet and we talk. We talk a lot. V. S. RAMACHANDRAN Everybodys interested in this question What makes. What makes us different from the great apes, for exampleYou. But another thing is culture. And a lot of culture comes from imitation. ROBERT KRULWICH And here V. S. Ramachandran makes a big leap. He has proposed that at a key moment in our evolution, this is his guess, our. And that made all the difference, he says, because. V. S. RAMACHANDRAN In other words, if you are a bear, and suddenly the. ROBERT KRULWICH It would take many, many, many bear. But, says Ramachandran. V. S. RAMACHANDRAN If youre a human, you watch your father slaying. You watch it, you learn it instantly. Your mirror neurons start firing. Instead of going through millions of years of evolution, youve done. ROBERT KRULWICH And while no one is claiming that mirror. You can see. it any Sunday at a sports bar, that deep in our architecture, down in our. DANIEL GLASERThered be very little point in having a mirror system if. Thered be a lot of point in having a digestive system. Thered be a good point in having a movement system. Thered be a good point in having a visual system if. But thered be no point in having a mirror system. The. mirror system is probably the most basic social brain system.