The role of mirror neurons in speech and language processing

Brain and Language

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-2

  Hickok, Gregory ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATAXIC APHASIA; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MIRROR NEURON; MOTOR SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROLINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING; NEURONS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 72249101296     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2009.10.006     Document Type: Editorial

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