Yawn, yawn, yawn, yawn; Yawn, yawn, yawn! The social, evolutionary and neuroscientific facets of contagious yawning

Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue , 2010, Pages 107-112

  Platek, Steven M ^a  

^a GEORGIA GWINNETT COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; CONTAGIOUS YAWNING; DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; DRIVE; EMOTIONALITY; EMPATHY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; YAWNING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; HISTOLOGY; IMITATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; EMPATHY; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YAWNING;

EID: 77952764291     PISSN: 16604431     EISSN: 16622804     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000307086     Document Type: Review

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