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=Mirroring=

Empathy
Mirroring, thought to be a supporting system of empathy, allows others to subjectively feel the pain of others when viewing injuries.

Examinations in Humans
The use of noninvasive fMRI studies have shown that there is evidence of mirroring in humans similar to that found in monkeys in the inferior parietal lobe and part of the inferior frontal gyrus. Humans show additional signs of mirroring in parts of the brain not observed to show mirroring properties in primates, such as the cerebellum. One EMG study showed that mirroring allows neurotypical children to understand what the intentions of an action are before seeing the entire sequence. A study showed that children with autism lack this motor chain reaction and are thought to use other senses, such as visual or somatosensory, to accomplish similar tasks.