Research published today in Nature Human Behavior shows seeing
familiar people activates a network of brain regions that appears to encode their position within the social group.
Not exact matches
Previous research has shown that a network of mirror neurons in the brain is
activated when we watch
people move in
familiar ways — we mentally rehearse their actions as if we were performing them ourselves.
We have the genome, which most
people are probably
familiar with at this point, but it's a very dynamic system depending on what's getting
activated and what is getting turned off.