Social Neuroscience: Mirror Neurons Recorded in Humans

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Keysers, Christian ^a,b   Gazzola, Valeria ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; HAND; HUMAN; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; VISION;

ANIMALS; HAND; HUMANS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77951170373     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.03.013     Document Type: Short Survey

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