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iPodders, Parents, and Monkey See Monkey Do Neurons!
Headphones in the ears?!?? What's goin' on!!!!
In his book Social Intelligence, renowned author Daniel Goleman reveals new research about mirror-neurons and neuroplasticity that reveals what most of us come to realize anyway through common sense: It's good to take out the headphones from our ears once in a while and enjoy some good old-fashioned face-2-face communication and interaction.
You don't have to take my word for it! Read it for yourself:
www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell/catalog/display.pperl?isbn...
Quote:
"Is there a way to raise our children to be happy? What is the basis of a nourishing marriage? How can business leaders and teachers inspire the best in those they lead and teach? How can groups divided by prejudice and hatred come to live together in peace?
The answers to these questions may not be as elusive as we once thought. And Goleman delivers his most heartening news with powerful conviction: we humans have a built-in bias toward empathy, cooperation, and altruism–provided we develop the social intelligence to nurture these capacities in ourselves and others."
Enjoy this 14 minute segment about mirror neurons and their connection to empathy and compassion:
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3204/01.html
Wikipedia entry on Mirror Neurons: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neurons
Wikipedia entry on Neuroplasticity:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity
Segment from Wikipedia on mirror neurons and empathy:
"Mirror neurons have been linked to empathy, because certain brain regions (in particular the anterior insula and inferior frontal cortex) are active when a person experiences an emotion (disgust, happiness, pain etc) and when they see another person experience an emotion. [24] [25] [26] However, these brain regions are not quite the same as the ones which mirror hand actions, and mirror neurons for emotional states or empathy have not yet been described in monkeys. More recently, Keysers and colleagues have shown that people that are more empathic according to self-report questionnaires have stronger activations both in the mirror system for hand actions [27] and the mirror system for emotions [28] providing more direct support to the idea that the mirror system is linked to empathy."
iPodders, Parents, and Monkey See Monkey Do Neurons!
Headphones in the ears?!?? What's goin' on!!!!
In his book Social Intelligence, renowned author Daniel Goleman reveals new research about mirror-neurons and neuroplasticity that reveals what most of us come to realize anyway through common sense: It's good to take out the headphones from our ears once in a while and enjoy some good old-fashioned face-2-face communication and interaction.
You don't have to take my word for it! Read it for yourself:
www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell/catalog/display.pperl?isbn...
Quote:
"Is there a way to raise our children to be happy? What is the basis of a nourishing marriage? How can business leaders and teachers inspire the best in those they lead and teach? How can groups divided by prejudice and hatred come to live together in peace?
The answers to these questions may not be as elusive as we once thought. And Goleman delivers his most heartening news with powerful conviction: we humans have a built-in bias toward empathy, cooperation, and altruism–provided we develop the social intelligence to nurture these capacities in ourselves and others."
Enjoy this 14 minute segment about mirror neurons and their connection to empathy and compassion:
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3204/01.html
Wikipedia entry on Mirror Neurons: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neurons
Wikipedia entry on Neuroplasticity:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity
Segment from Wikipedia on mirror neurons and empathy:
"Mirror neurons have been linked to empathy, because certain brain regions (in particular the anterior insula and inferior frontal cortex) are active when a person experiences an emotion (disgust, happiness, pain etc) and when they see another person experience an emotion. [24] [25] [26] However, these brain regions are not quite the same as the ones which mirror hand actions, and mirror neurons for emotional states or empathy have not yet been described in monkeys. More recently, Keysers and colleagues have shown that people that are more empathic according to self-report questionnaires have stronger activations both in the mirror system for hand actions [27] and the mirror system for emotions [28] providing more direct support to the idea that the mirror system is linked to empathy."