Empathy and the Somatotopic Auditory Mirror System in Humans

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 1824-1829

  Gazzola, Valeria ^a   Aziz Zadeh, Lisa ^b,c   Keysers, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HEARING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX;

EID: 33748447743     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.07.072     Document Type: Article

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