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=Mirroring= Was this area supposed to have information from the lead section?(Pat Dillard)

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

(minor edit) Instead of using others twice, try using individuals or people in the first sentence. What about the rest of the section that details how empathy allows you to be proficient in social environments? (Pat Dillard)

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.

''There's an idea that mirroring may be involved in romantic attraction. I'm not sure what the literature says on this but that may be interesting to look into/potentially add. Also, I would go a bit more in depth about the conclusions of citations 4 and 5. You explained these studies to me in person and the conclusions seemed like the biggest takeaways here (Simone)'' ''I'll go back and look through them and adjust accordingly. I also need to rephrase some things a bit better to help the flow of my work, I think. Thank you for the feedback! (Megan E Smith (talk) 19:58, 24 October 2019 (UTC))

''Very nice review of this article. I agree that when I reviewed the article, it was written as a very direct article citing the existence of these neurons. Where they introduce any doubt as to their existence is in the human, where it is nearly impossible to study a single neuron system. It is notable that when you went to verify some of these sources you found that they were not open source. This may often be an issue if an author doesn't pay to have an article open source or if it does not fall under the NIH publication rules for work funded by our tax payer dollars. Is this a topic you are interested in working on for the class? Where would you propose to find additional articles (possibly open source) that discuss the existence (or not) of these neurons in humans? Do you think there might be additional literature on animal studies that suggests these neurons may not exist? (Liz)''

Article Evaluation: Mirror Neurons
Most of the information presented is directly pertinent to the main topic of the page, however, I did notice a few instances where blocked quotations were used in a way that could have been accomplished just as well in neutral terms. Doing this would also easily get rid of tangent information like the definition of sleep paralysis. While the article is mostly worded well and is free of bias, it felt as though the article was quite biased towards the acceptance of mirror neurons and didn't provide a quite as in-depth discussion of if they did not exist. In addition to this, there is at least one citation that I saw was missing in the "Origin" heading.

While the sources I could check were all very nice and based on non-biased research, some of them were not open to the public, making them impossible to check or critique. Some of these articles were those that contradicted the idea of mirror neurons/their role in the mind. This is very unfortunate as it prevents the addition of more of the contradictory viewpoint being added from these articles and the ability to check the validity of the claims cited. This also makes it impossible to check for paraphrasing or plagiarism. Fortunately, because the discovery of mirror neurons happened only about a decade ago, none of the information is particularly out of date.