Do mirror neurons subserve action understanding?

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 540, Issue , 2013, Pages 56-58

  Hickok, Gregory ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Action; Mirror neurons; Perception; Speech

Indexed keywords

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; HUMAN; MIRROR NEURON; MOTOR CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MIRROR NEURONS; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84876323132     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.11.001     Document Type: Review

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