Through the looking glass: Self and others

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 64-74

  Sinigaglia, Corrado ^a   Rizzolatti, Giacomo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action understanding; Mirror mechanism; Motor system; Self and other

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; MIRROR MECHANISM; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; SELF CONCEPT;

ANIMALS; AWARENESS; BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; EGO; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTENTION; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79952102923     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2010.11.012     Document Type: Article

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