Your goal is mine: Unraveling mimetic desires in the Human Brain

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 7146-7157

  Pessiglione, Mathias ^a,b   Lebreton, Maël ^a,b   Kawa, Shadia ^c,d   d'Arc, Baudouin Forgeot ^a,b   Daunizeau, Jean ^a,b  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIMETIC DESIRE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GOALS; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIRROR NEURONS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84861302896     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4821-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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