Is human imitation based on a mirror-neurone system? Some behavioural evidence

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 335-341

  Wohlschläger, Andreas ^a   Bekkering, Harold ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Goals; Humans; Imitation; Mirror neurones; Objects

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; IMITATION; MALE; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0036118392     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-001-0993-5     Document Type: Article

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