Facial expressions: What the mirror neuron system can and cannot tell us

Social Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 179-222

  van der Gaag, Christiaan ^a   Minderaa, Ruud B ^a   Keysers, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 34547566983     PISSN: 17470919     EISSN: 17470927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470910701376878     Document Type: Article

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