Making sense of mirror neurons

Synthese

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 439-456

  Shapiro, Lawrence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Grice; Mirror neurons; Perception; Psychophysics; Receptive fields; Senses

Indexed keywords

EID: 60849111942     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-008-9385-8     Document Type: Article

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