Apraxia, metaphor and mirror neurons

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1165-1168

  McGeoch, Paul D ^a   Brang, David ^a   Ramachandran, V S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APRAXIA; CONCEPT FORMATION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LITERATURE; MOTOR CONTROL; NERVE PROJECTION; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION;

ANIMALS; APRAXIA, IDEOMOTOR; APRAXIAS; BRAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE;

EID: 35448957313     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2007.05.017     Document Type: Editorial

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