Have you ever noticed that every time someone else yawns, no matter how hard you try, you will always yawn as well? This happens to me day after day so I finally decided to research and find out the reason behind this.
Not only do people catch yawns, but chimpanzees do as well. They say that yawning is usually a very unconscious action in which we have learned to replicate others if they yawn. Sometimes you do notice it, and that is the fine line between conscious and unconscious thinking. After studies were conducted by the Finnish government, they found that yawning is definitely and unconscious action, that somehow bypasses the brain circuitry for mimicking other people’s actions. Mirror neurons usually play a role when someone copies the action of someone else, but they have no part in the yawning contagion which makes it so mysterious. To find out more information on the brain functions included in yawning visit this website. http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/050309_yawnfrm.htm
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