What imitation tells us about social cognition: A rapprochement between developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1431, 2003, Pages 491-500

  Meltzoff, Andrew N ^a   Decety, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Empathy; Imitation; Mirror neurons; Parietal cortex; Shared neural representations; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; IMITATION; NEUROLOGY;

EID: 0037471832     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1261     Document Type: Article

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