Implications of mirror neurons for the ontogeny and phylogeny of cultural processes: The examples of tools and language

Action to Language Via the Mirror Neuron System

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 501-533

  Greenfield, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 49749096665     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511541599.016     Document Type: Chapter

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