Mirror Neurons and Language

Handbook of the Neuroscience of Language

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 237-246

  Arbib, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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31. Arbib M.A. From monkey-like action recognition to human language: An evolutionary framework for neurolinguistics. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2005, 28:105-167. This gives a good sense of the state of debate over hypotheses A1 through A4 for the Mirror System Hypothesis since it is accompanied by numerous commentaries pro and con, together with my response. Supplemental commentaries and my "electronic response" are at http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Arbib-05012002/Supplemental/Arbib.E-R esponse_Supplemental.pdf.
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