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Psicologia em Revista

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FERREIRA, Vinicius Renato Thomé; CECCONELLO, William Weber  and  MACHADO, Mariana Rodrigues. MIRROR NEURONS AS A POSSIBLE NEUROLOGICAL BASIS OF SOCIAL SKILLS. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2017, vol.23, n.1, pp.147-159. ISSN 1677-1168.  https://doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2017v23n1p147-159.

Mirror Neurons (MN) were discovered at the end of the 1990’s and then related to primary motor actions control, such as handling food and objects, and the communication through facial expressions. Later it was supposed that they had relationship with more complex behaviors, such as understanding the intentionality of the act oblivious. Social skills (SK) are learnt behavior in contact with the environment and the individual seeking to adapt to its environment; thus, it is possible that there is a relationships between the operation of the MN and SK. This article aims to introduce the concepts of MN and SK, suggesting a relationship between them, can become one of the biological bases of human behavior

Keywords : Mirror neurons; Social skills; Neuroscience; Neuropsychology.

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