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We understand others through high-level conceptual processing.
Discovered in the 1990s in the brains of macaque monkeys, these cells fired both when a monkey grabbed a peanut and when it watched a human grab one. The scientific community went wild. Suddenly, mirror neurons were the "DNA of psychology." Experts claimed they were the secret to empathy, language, and even why we enjoy watching sports.