Eye contact enhances mimicry of intransitive hand movements

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 7-10

  Wang, Yin ^a   Newport, Roger ^a   De C Hamilton, Antonia F ^a   Hamilton, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eye contact; Mimicry; Non verbal behaviour; Social learning

Indexed keywords

EYE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; MIMICRY; PARADIGM SHIFT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIMESCALE;

EID: 79551504158     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0279     Document Type: Article

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