Sensorimotor learning and the ontogeny of the mirror neuron system

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 540, Issue , 2013, Pages 21-27

  Catmur, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Associative sequence learning; Imitation; Mirror neuron; Ontogeny; Sensorimotor learning

Indexed keywords

BOLD SIGNAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INDEX FINGER; MIRROR NEURON; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MIRROR NEURONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84876329825     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.10.001     Document Type: Review

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