1) F Rather, we watch sport for the feeling. The human drama. The feeling also derives from mirror neurons. By letting spectators share in the emotions of victory, they also allow us to share in its feelings. This is because they are directly connected to the amygdala, one of the main brain regions involved in emotion  2) B To the novice, however, the skill of casting a smooth arc with a tee-side metal stick is virtually impossible. This is because most novices swing with their consciousness, using an area of brain next to the premotor cortex. 3) E. The best athletes are those with a premotor cortex capable of imagining the movement of victory, together with the physical properties to make those movements real. 4) C. when the monkey performs a particular action (for example, grasping an object or holding it) and, astonishingly, when it sees another individual performing a similar action. 5) D. This phenomenon of neural mirroring was first discovered in 1954, when two French physiologists, Gastaut and Berf, found that the brains of humans vibrate with two distinct wavelengths, alpha and mu. 6) 7. They discovered that inside this primate brain there were groups of cells that 'store vocabularies of motor actions'. Just as there are grammars of movement. These networks of cells are the bodily 'sentences' we use every day, the ones our brain has chosen to retain and refine 7) 8. To the expert, on the other hand, a perfectly balanced stroke is second nature. For him, the motor action has become memorized, and the movements are embedded in the neurons of his premotor cortex. He hits the ball with the tranquility of his perfected autopilot. 8) 9. But how many of us regularly watch sports in order to be a better athlete?Rather, we watch sport for the feeling. The human drama. The feeling also derives from mirror neurons. By letting spectators share in the emotions of victory, they also allow us to share in its feelings. 9) 10. To the novice, however, the skill of casting a smooth arc with a tee-side metal stick is virtually impossible. This is because most novices swing with their consciousness, using an area of brain next to the premotor cortex. To the expert, on the other hand, a perfectly balanced stroke is second nature. For him, the motor action has become memorized, and the movements are embedded in the neurons of his premotor cortex. He hits the ball with the tranquility of his perfected autopilot. 10) 11. Humans have an even more elaborate mirror neuron system. 11) 12. If we are staring at a photograph, a fixed image of a runner mid-stride, our mirror neurons are totally silent. They only fire when the runner is active: running, moving or sprinting.

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