Infants' mu suppression during the observation of real and mimicked goal-directed actions

Developmental Science

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 173-185

  Warreyn, Petra ^a   Ruysschaert, Lieselot ^a   Wiersema, Jan R ^a   Handl, Andrea ^b   Pattyn, Griet ^a   Roeyers, Herbert ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; IMITATION; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIRROR NEURON; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ARTIFACTS; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MIRROR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84874199128     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/desc.12014     Document Type: Article

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