Are Your Emotions Contagious?
We're known to mimic each other's facial expressions and posture, but they aren't the only things we can subconsciously "catch" from others. SUBSCRIBE to BrainCraft! Click here: http://ow.ly/rt5IE...
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This is Jake. He has a particularly cheesy grin because he’s appearing on BrainCraft and his shirt is covered in, well, cheese. If you find yourself smiling too, it’s not his charm. We mimic each other’s facial expressions, posture and elements of speech all the time; mostly without actually realising it. Back in 1992, researchers looked at the activity of single neurons in the brain of the macaque monkey. They came across a system of neurons that fired both when the monkey performed an action - grabbing a peanut - and when the monkey observed a researcher grabbing a peanut too. The researchers called the system “mirror neurons” because the neurons “reflected" a behaviour; even though the monkeys weren’t performing that behaviour t...
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This is Jake. He has a particularly cheesy grin because he’s appearing on BrainCraft and his shirt is covered in, well, cheese. If you find yourself smiling too, it’s not his charm. We mimic each other’s facial expressions, posture and elements of speech all the time; mostly without actually realising it. Back in 1992, researchers looked at the activity of single neurons in the brain of the macaque monkey. They came across a system of neurons that fired both when the monkey performed an action - grabbing a peanut - and when the monkey observed a researcher grabbing a peanut too. The researchers called the system “mirror neurons” because the neurons “reflected" a behaviour; even though the monkeys weren’t performing that behaviour t...
