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Interlude XIX - Neural Mirroring: The Science of Shared Feeling
In this interlude, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey of crowscupboard.com examines the hidden choreography of empathy - the mirror mechanism that allows one human brain to echo another’s joy, sorrow, and intent.
First identified in the early 1990s by Giacomo Rizzolatti and Vittorio Gallese at the University of Parma, mirror neurons revealed a startling truth: our brains rehearse the actions and emotions we witness in others. To see is to enact; to feel is to participate.
Drawing upon research from Tania Singer at the Max Planck Institute on compassion fatigue, Marco Iacoboni at UCLA on social context and…
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