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Nature 452, 814-815 (17 April 2008) | doi:10.1038/452814a; Published online 16 April 2008

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Reflecting on the mind

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran1

BOOK REVIEWEDMirrors in the Brain

by Giacomo Rizzolatti & Corrado Sinigaglia. Translated by Frances Anderson

Oxford University Press: 2007. 256 pp. $49.95

When a paradigm-shattering discovery is made in science, it goes through three stages before gaining acceptance. First, people don't believe it; second, they claim it is of no interest; and third, they say that they have always known it.