Hickok argues that the brain is more like a sophisticated than a simple mirror.
📍 The "mirror neuron" theory was a beautiful, simple answer to how we connect. Hickok’s work serves as a reminder that the human brain is rarely that simple. The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscien...
Empathy is a complex social construct, not a single-cell reflex. Hickok argues that the brain is more like
Gregory Hickok, a linguistics professor at UC Irvine, spent years watching the world fall in love with "mirror neurons." not a single-cell reflex. Gregory Hickok
We understand others through high-level conceptual processing.