The discovery of mirror neurons in macaque monkeys in the 1990s by Rizzolatti and colleagues was a seminal finding in neuroscience that has profoundly impacted our understanding of learning, imitation, and social cognition. Mirror neurons exhibit the remarkable property of firing both when an individual performs an action and when they observe another performing the same action [300]. This finding suggests a direct neural coupling between the perception and execution of actions, providing insight into the neural basis of imitation learning and action understanding.