4 ms·
No, because a non-autistic person can use their mirror neurons to imitate the behavior a person who has it. (This is the mechanism by which all of human cultur
by LPTS 18y ago
No, because a non-autistic person can use their mirror neurons to imitate the behavior a person who has it. (This is the mechanism by which all of human culture evolved).
I'll drop you that email, maybe we are getting too far off topic.
- dbrush 18y agoThe existence of mirror neurons is a theory. Also, you're confusing Autism with all Autism Spectrum Disorders as a whole; Asperger's Syndrome, for example. Autism != Asperger's Syndrome
- LPTS 18y agoI am not confusing them so much as avoiding trying to write a textbook on autism when addressing the original issue. I was sloppy. I may not have succeeded at my goal of not writing too much. The existence of mirror neurons is not just a theory. A mirror neuron is (by definition) a neuron that fires both when you do something and someone else has done something. Those are observed. It is a theory that it causes autism, but not a theory that they fire less in autistic children, or that these areas of the brain are almost precisely the same places where autistic spectrum people have thinner brains then controls.
- stcredzero 18y agothan not then