Shared meals and face-to-face family interactions provide critical contexts for bonding and social communication that advance children's potential. Family rituals, particularly mealtimes, foster development and strengthening of empathy. Observing another person's action triggers neurons to fire in the same frontal and parietal brain regions in both actor and observer; these responding cells are called anticipatory mirror neurons. The mirror-neuron network enables humans to gauge another person's intentions and sensory experience and contributes to affective empathy. Interoceptive awareness of internal states localizes to the insula, a deeply situated structure beneath opercula and vessels, which is implicated in the affective components of empathy.
The research informs that these mirror neurons may also enable "humans to gauge another person's intentions and sensory experience." The research informs that this mirror- neuron network is what potentially gives rise to that affective state of empathy, and it has a specific anatomical location. The suggested brain-based location for this "interoceptive sense - the awareness of our internal states" occurs in the insula of the brain (Roland, 2014, p.210).
In terms of anatomical location, the insula (also known as the insular) is not visible because it is "hidden under the temporal, frontal and parietal opercula, as well as under dense arterial and venous vessels, its accessibility is particularly restricted" (Stephani et al., 2011, p. 137). According to Claxton (2015), the insula/insular is involved in the affective states of empathy.
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