Where do mirror neurons come from?

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 575-583

  Heyes, Cecilia ^a  

^a ALL SOULS COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action understanding; Adaptation; Associative learning; Associative Sequence Learning; Counter mirror neurons; Evolution; Evolutionary byproduct; Imitation; Mirror neurons; Sensorimotor learning; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULTHOOD; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LEARNING; MIRROR NEURON; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77649184975     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2009.11.007     Document Type: Review

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