Good morning.
Today’s forecast calls for occasional morning showers and a high temperature of fifty degrees.
It’s Market Day pickup today at Lincoln School today at 5 p.m.
Over at ScienceNews.org, there’s a story and video entitled, “Brain’s mirror system loves the robot,” in which author Laura Sanders writes that
The next time you watch that guy on the dance floor do the robot to Mr. Roboto, his automatonic, jerky moves will speak to a surprising part of your brain: a region scientists thought was reserved for making sense of actions by others that you too are able to perform.
New experiments challenge a common view of this “mirror system” by showing that it’s not just a copycat, but is able to respond to a much wider range of actions than what an observer can perform himself.
Apparently this responsiveness includes a strong response to unnatural, repetitive dances, for example.
ScienceNews offers two videos that, by researchers’ accounts, should be particularly intriguing. Are they? Here that are, ready for testing —
MAN DOES THE ROBOT from Science News on Vimeo.
ROBOT DOES THE ROBOT from Science News on Vimeo.