Predictive motor activation during action observation in human infants

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 769-772

  Southgate, Victoria ^a   Johnson, Mark H ^a   Osborne, Tamsin ^a   Csibra, Gergely ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Action perception; Motor system; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; BRAIN; COGNITION; NEUROLOGY; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; YOUNG POPULATION;

EID: 72749098506     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0474     Document Type: Article

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