Professor Giacomo Rizzolatti is an Italian Neurophysiologist who works at the University of Parma. Neurophysiology (from Greek grc νεῦρον neuron, "nerve" grc φύσις physis, "nature origin" and grc -λογία The University of Parma ( Italian: Università degli Studi di Parma, UNIPR is one of the oldest universities in the world founded in the 11th century He is the Senior Scientist of the research team that discovered mirror neurons in the frontal and parietal cortex of the macaque monkey, and has written many scientific articles on the topic. A mirror neuron is a Neuron which fires both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another (especially Conspecific The frontal lobe is an area in the Brain of Mammals It is located at the front of each Cerebral hemisphere and positioned anterior to (in front of the The parietal lobe is a lobe in the Brain. It is positioned above (superior to the Occipital lobe and behind (posterior to the Frontal lobe. The macaques (məˈkæk constitute a genus ( Macaca, /məˈkækə/ of Old World monkeys of the subfamily Cercopithecinae.
He has recently published a book called 'Mirrors in the Brain'. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mirrors-Brain-Actions-Emotions-Experience/dp/019921798X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212440921&sr=1-1
References
http://www.unipr.it/arpa/mirror/english/staff/rizzolat.htm
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