Why Would Mirror Neurons Be Especially Important for Human Beings to Possess?

Marco Iacoboni, professor of psychiatry at the Semel Institute, and director, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Lab in the Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, was featured in a Jan. 12 online segment of the PBS program “The Human Spark.” Iacoboni discussed the role of mirror neurons with the show’s host, Alan Alda.