I'm not 100% familiar with how we found out about mirror neurons, and how we can measure their activity.
I suppose we can't simply see mirror neuron activity on a brain scan. Is this true?
Anyway, I ask this, because I want to know, when people play video games, whether their mirror neurons are responsible (atleast partly) for the sense of immersion in the game.
When you watch movies, it seems intuitive to me that part of the emphasis with the characters (and thus immersion) is through mirror neurons.
But with video games, you control the main character, so it seems somewhat unintuitive to me that mirror neurons would be responsible, even though you are controlling the character yourself. and perhaps more importantly, first person games (where you look through the eyes of the character, and thus can't see the character himself) are as immersive or more immersive than games where you can the character.