Mirror Neurons make women read more novels!!! Mirror neurons are located behind the eyebrows, these neurons are activated both when we initiate actions and when we watch those same actions in others. Mirror neurons explain why we recoil when seeing others in pain, or salivate when we see other people eating a gourmet meal. Neuroscientists believe that mirror neurons hold the biological key to empathy.The research is still in its early stages, but some studies have found that women have more sensitive mirror neurons than men. That might explain why women tend to read more fiction than men. Some book publishers even say that a novel will be dead without a woman!This phenomenon might be explained by the fact that a novel requires the reader to empathize with characters and feel into them. Due to the activity of the neurons, this is something women are both more interested in and also better at than men.Thank God men like George Orwell and Vladimir Nabokov happen to be the lucky exception to the medical rule. Their mirror neurons were certainly active and compassionate. In fact, if we look back at the history of fiction and its genetics, Gods of literature, both authors and their critics, were predominantly males while their readers were females. Enough talking… let me get back to my dear Faulkner;-)
