Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina) / quote 62 of 91
Not every child has equal talent for empathy
Because this type of neural activity easily can be measured, it is possible to ask if every child has an equal talent for empathy. The unsurprising answer is no. Autistic children, for example, have no ability to detect changes in people’s emotional states. They simply can’t decode another person’s psychological interiors by looking at his or her face. They cannot divine people’s motivations or predict their intentions. Some researchers think they lack mirror-neuron activity.