Mirror neuron activation is associated with facial emotion processing

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2851-2854

  Enticott, Peter G ^a   Johnston, Patrick J ^b   Herring, Sally E ^a   Hoy, Kate E ^a   Fitzgerald, Paul B ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Facial emotion processing; Mirror neurons; Premotor cortex; Social cognition; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVATION; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 47349093156     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.04.022     Document Type: Article

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