Making Connections in Language and Thought. As discussed in both the Biology of Behavior and Language and Thought chapters of the Feist and Rosenberg text, ___________________ are clusters of brain cells that have been observed to be involved in infants' copying of adults' facial expressions and speech sounds.

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Mirror neurons are specialized neurons that fire both when an individual acts and when the individual observes the same action performed by another. This mirroring process is believed to be crucial for understanding others' actions and intentions, and is involved in the copying of facial expressions and speech sounds in infants, as discussed in the context of the Biology of Behavior and Language and Thought.