The mirror mechanism and mu rhythm in social development

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 540, Issue , 2013, Pages 15-20

  Vanderwert, Ross E ^a,d   Fox, Nathan A ^a   Ferrari, Pier F ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

EEG; Humans; Imitation; Infancy; Mirror neurons; Rhesus macaques; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GESTURE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; IMITATION; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MIRROR NEURON; MU RHYTHM; NONHUMAN; PRECISION GRIP; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MACACA MULATTA; MIRROR NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84876314676     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.10.006     Document Type: Review

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