You want that? Well I want it, too! The neuroscience of mimetic desire | The Scicurious Brain, Scientific American Blog Network
It appears that the induction of mimetic desire involves both of these systems, the mirror neuron system responding to the other person’s action with the object, and the valuation system putting an increased value on the object because of mirror neuron input.
First, the mirror neuron system is really two areas, the parietal lobules and the premotor areas (where motor signals go before they hit the actual motor command and your muscles start moving). The neurons in these areas respond under two conditions: when you yourself are performing an action, and when you see someone else performing an action. We call it the mirror neuron system because it “mirrors” the behavior of someone else.
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