Mirror Neurons: Not Relevant Yet

From Slate, an article by Alison Gopnik on how the term "mirror neuron," used to describe the activities of particular cells observed in Rhesus monkeys, is mostly bunk when applied to humans. Excellent and fascinating read, particularly because Scientific American has been taken in by the "mirror neuron myth" repeatedly. Also compare the Wikipedia page (particularly notice that it inappropriately conflates "mirror regions" with "mirror neurons"). Important moral: when Wikipedia is wrong, it is often wrong in ways that are simultaneously important and hard to detect.