The mirror-neuron system

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue , 2004, Pages 169-192

  Rizzolatti, Giacomo ^a   Craighero, Laila ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action understanding; Imitation; Language; Mirror neurons; Motor cognition

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GESTURE; HUMAN; IMITATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LIP READING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES COMPARISON; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ANIMALS; DOGS; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 3943111670     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.27.070203.144230     Document Type: Review

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