Video: Learning language with the singalong neurons
Stick your tongue out at an infant and he’ll stick his tongue back out at you. Without knowing it, your bundle of joy is showing off his ability to imitate gestures using the mirror neurons in his brain. Now it appears he may use the same neurons to learn how to speak.
Mirror neurons fire when a person performs an intentional action – such as picking up a pen – and also when he or she observes someone else performing the same action.
Using measurements of neural…
