Mirror neurons are one of the many interesting and mysterious parts of the brain. In the article “The mind’s mirror”, Lea Winerman goes in dept about what they are, how they were discovered and how they could help us understand our mind. First: “Mirror neurons are a type of brain cell that respond equally when we perform an action and when we witness someone else perform the same action” (Winerman). However, they were not discovered in humans. The first and only proof of their existence were found in a study on monkeys. The same neurons would read when the animals did a certain action or…