Mirror neuron activity during contagious yawning-an fMRI study

Brain Imaging and Behavior

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 28-34

  Haker, Helene ^a   Kawohl, Wolfram ^a   Herwig, Uwe ^a   Rössler, Wulf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Empathy; fMRI; Imitation; Inferior frontal gyrus; Mirror neuron system; Resonance; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; MIRROR NEURON; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEOTAPE; VISUAL STIMULATION; YAWNING;

EID: 84874549098     PISSN: 19317557     EISSN: 19317565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11682-012-9189-9     Document Type: Article

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