I don’t think brains are capable of thinking something about something. Brains are used to think something about something. I don’t know, sounds stupid to me too. I think of it like a plane. There’s a computer or a person flying the plane, the plane doesn’t fly itself. Probably would have sounded less stupid, if it said something like „What happens really in our brains, if we think about/hear these mimicry attempts?“

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

You are on point with your last sentence.

When something happens and we perceive it, we think of the situation. Yes, yes, technically it's the brain doing the thinking, but our brain is us, not something separate.

So a better phrase would be the one you mentioned. "When we notice this mimicry, our brains activate such and such regions."