Resisting motor mimicry: Control of imitation involves processes central to social cognition in patients with frontal and temporo-parietal lesions

Social Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 401-416

  Spengler, Stephanie ^a   von Cramon, D Yves ^b   Brass, Marcel ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Lesion study; Mentalizing; Mirror system; Perspective taking; Shared representations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMITATION; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77954606813     PISSN: 17470919     EISSN: 17470927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470911003687905     Document Type: Article

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