How Long to Read The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition

How Long Does it Take to Read The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition by Gregory Hickok

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Description

An essential reconsideration of one of the most far-reaching theories in modern neuroscience and psychology. In 1992, a group of neuroscientists from Parma, Italy, reported a new class of brain cells discovered in the motor cortex of the macaque monkey. These cells, later dubbed mirror neurons, responded equally well during the monkey’s own motor actions, such as grabbing an object, and while the monkey watched someone else perform similar motor actions. Researchers speculated that the neurons allowed the monkey to understand others by simulating their actions in its own brain. Mirror neurons soon jumped species and took human neuroscience and psychology by storm. In the late 1990s theorists showed how the cells provided an elegantly simple new way to explain the evolution of language, the development of human empathy, and the neural foundation of autism. In the years that followed, a stream of scientific studies implicated mirror neurons in everything from schizophrenia and drug abuse to sexual orientation and contagious yawning. In The Myth of Mirror Neurons, neuroscientist Gregory Hickok reexamines the mirror neuron story and finds that it is built on a tenuous foundation—a pair of codependent assumptions about mirror neuron activity and human understanding. Drawing on a broad range of observations from work on animal behavior, modern neuroimaging, neurological disorders, and more, Hickok argues that the foundational assumptions fall flat in light of the facts. He then explores alternative explanations of mirror neuron function while illuminating crucial questions about human cognition and brain function: Why do humans imitate so prodigiously? How different are the left and right hemispheres of the brain? Why do we have two visual systems? Do we need to be able to talk to understand speech? What’s going wrong in autism? Can humans read minds? The Myth of Mirror Neurons not only delivers an instructive tale about the course of scientific progress—from discovery to theory to revision—but also provides deep insights into the organization and function of the human brain and the nature of communication and cognition.

How long is The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition?

The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition by Gregory Hickok is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.

This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition aloud.

What Reading Level is The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition?

The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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