Contagious yawning and the brain

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 23, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 448-452

  Platek, Steven M ^a   Mohamed, Feroze B ^b   Gallup Jr , Gordon G ^c  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain Empathy; Empathic modelling; Self processing; Yawning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPATHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YAWNING;

EID: 17044364044     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2004.11.011     Document Type: Article

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