When you see a baby and you perform a task such as sticking out your tongue out, the baby in return will stick out their tongue. That is what a mirror neuron does, it reads the action and movement which fires the premotor neurons that represents the baby’s tongue and priming activates the related motor cortex neurons that project the baby’s tongue. This happens a lot when someone yarns, you feel yourself trying to hold back a yarn after you see someone else yawn. The say it’s “like monkey see monkey do”, which is interesting because the research was done on monkeys.
Mirror neurons are neurons located in area 46 within the fr
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