Analysis: How the brain builds a sense of self from the people around us - new research

MBPhD researcher Sam Ereira (UCL Medical School) shares his research on brains and discusses how we distinguish between thinking about our minds versus those of others. We are highly sensitive to people around us. As infants, we observe our parents and teachers, and from them we learn how to walk, talk, read - and use smartphones. There seems to be no limit to the complexity of behaviour we can acquire from observational learning. But social influence goes deeper than that. We don't just copy the behaviour of people around us. We also copy their minds.