JM Kilner y otros.Evidencia de neuronas espejo en el giro frontal inferior humanoJ Neurosci(2009)

En la década de 1990, una serie de experimentos realizados en Parma evidenció que algunas neuronas premotoras, llamadas neuronas espejo, se activaban no solo durante la ejecución de una acción, como debería, sino también durante la observación de la misma acción [1].

Un ejemplo de aplicación del Mapa de la Empatía

the good teams all had high ‘‘average social sensitivity’’ — a fancy way of saying they were skilled at intuiting how others felt based on their tone of voice, their expressions and other nonverbal cues. One of the easiest ways to gauge social sensitivity is to show someone photos of people’s eyes and ask him or her to describe what the people are thinking or feeling — an exam known as the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test. People on the more successful teams in Woolley’s experiment scored above average on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test. They seemed to know when someone was feeling upset or left out. People on the ineffective teams, in contrast, scored below average. They seemed, as a group, to have less sensitivity toward their colleagues.