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Reflections on mirror neurons, written by Temma Ehrenfeld was written about the decovery in mirror neuronsin the human brain. Temma belived that studing mirror neurons will help stroke patients. When looking for mirror neurons they would hook up electrodes deep inside the brain. After hooking up the electrodes they could look at areas of the brain that light up to find their location. Ehrenfeld explains the similarity between humans and monkeys mirroring activity. Then research of a monkey’s brain has helped to record single mirror neurons in humans. The university of California had a study and they hooked up in-depth electrodes in 21 epileptic patients. Epileptic patients suffer from a brain disorder in which clusters of nerve cells or neurons in the brain signal abnormal sensations, emotions, and behaviors. By studying this we can tell that the author views studying the mirroring system as an important discovery. …show more content…

She started off by explaining the feild of study and the keept the reader interested. She did not lose the readers attention but always keept them interested. The quality of the studies used in this article were all published in well known journals and/or came straight from a university. Putting everything aside as a reader I cant help but question if the studies were actually creditable. I know they got published in well knows journals but I don’t know if was there any bias involved. In the paper there was no mention of any control groups. In the studies there was no mention of the age of the mokeys. There would need to be more information about the study for the reader to deturmin if the study was

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