Mirror Neurons: Research Update

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Glaser's team videotaped professional ballet and capoeira dancers performing brief, quite similar moves like those shown here. Then the team had other ballet and capoeira dancers (as well as a control group of nondancers) watch the videos while lying in a brain scanner.


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