Neurónios espelho

Os neurónios espelho podem estar implicados na aprendizagem que os bebés fazem a partir das suas mães.

Fonte: Nature

Saliente-se a citação feita no artigo referente à evolução deste objecto de investigação:

"When a paradigm-shattering discovery is made in science, it goes through three stages before gaining acceptance. First, people don't believe it; second, they claim it is of no interest; and third, they say that they have always known it. The discovery of mirror neurons in the early 1990s by Giacomo Rizzolatti, Vittorio Gallese, Marco Iacoboni and others, has been through all three stages."