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==Origin== Many implicitly assume that the mirroring function of mirror neurons is due primarily to heritable genetic factors and that the genetic predisposition to develop mirror neurons evolved because they facilitate action understanding.<ref name="pmid24775147">{{cite journal | vauthors = Cook R, Bird G, Catmur C, Press C, Heyes C | title = Mirror neurons: from origin to function | journal = The Behavioral and Brain Sciences | volume = 37 | issue = 2 | pages = 177β192 | date = April 2014 | pmid = 24775147 | doi = 10.1017/S0140525X13000903 | s2cid = 52873194 | url = https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/4536/1/Mirror%20neurons%20fro%20origin%20to%20function%20Cook%20et%20al%20BBS.pdf }}</ref> In contrast, a number of theoretical accounts argue that mirror neurons could simply emerge due to learned associations, including the [[Hebbian Theory]],<ref name="pmid24778372">{{cite journal | vauthors = Keysers C, Gazzola V | title = Hebbian learning and predictive mirror neurons for actions, sensations and emotions | journal = Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences | volume = 369 | issue = 1644 | pages = 20130175 | year = 2014 | pmid = 24778372 | pmc = 4006178 | doi = 10.1098/rstb.2013.0175 }}</ref> the [[Learning#Associative learning|Associative Learning]] Theory,<ref name="pmid24775147" /> and [[Canalisation (genetics)|Canalization]].<ref name="pmid19143807">{{cite journal | vauthors = Del Giudice M, Manera V, Keysers C | title = Programmed to learn? The ontogeny of mirror neurons | journal = Developmental Science | volume = 12 | issue = 2 | pages = 350β363 | date = March 2009 | pmid = 19143807 | doi = 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00783.x | hdl-access = free | s2cid = 15093476 | hdl = 2318/133096 }}</ref>
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