Mirroring of attention by neurons in macaque parietal cortex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 9489-9494

  Shepherd, Stephen V ^a   Klein, Jeffrey T ^b   Deaner, Robert O ^c   Platt, Michael L ^b,d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gaze following; Imitation; Joint attention; Mirror neurons; Shared attention

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; GAZE; IMITATION; MACACA; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CUES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FIXATION, OCULAR; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MACACA MULATTA; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; REACTION TIME;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 67249093823     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0900419106     Document Type: Article

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