<p>Compare with grandmother cell on a background of fragmentalism vs. wholism and sparse vs. distributed coding and correlation vs. causation.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 1, 2013 9:02 AM, "Sarah Tappon" <<a href="mailto:sarah.tappon@gmail.com">sarah.tappon@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
NB: The functional significance of "mirror neurons" in human cognition<br>
is controversial and a lot of people disagree with Ramachandran. Here<br>
are some alternate perspectives on the general issue:<br>
 <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/11/06/whats-so-special-about-mirror-neurons/" target="_blank">http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/11/06/whats-so-special-about-mirror-neurons/</a><br>

<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2773693/" target="_blank">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2773693/</a><br>
<br>
(My understanding is that there's also mixed evidence on the autism<br>
link specifically, but I don't know that literature very well.)<br>
<br>
-s<br>
<br>
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Jade Solomon <<a href="mailto:jade.solomon@me.com">jade.solomon@me.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hello Dream Team,<br>
><br>
> I've attached some articles you may find interesting, one about mirror neurons, and one about dreaming.<br>
> I'll try to find and share more related articles.<br>
><br>
> - Jade<br>
><br>
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