One of the most important findings of modern brain research was the discovery of mirror neurons. First observed in monkeys, these are neurons in the motor cortex that fire to produce an action but ...

Wallmark received his PhD from UCLA in 2014. As a graduate student in the Herb Albert School of Music, Zach worked in the Marco Iacoboni Lab at UCLA on a collaborative brain research project that used ...

Nat Clin Pract Neurol. 2009;5(1):24-34. Studies in which the properties of single neurons were studied in a naturalistic context have been particularly important for establishing this new view on ...