The wild ways of conscious will: What we do, how we do it, and why it has meaning

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Scott Jordan, J ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Entrainment; Imitation; Mimicry; Mirror neuron system; Mirroring; Synchrony; Teacher student interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885336600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00574     Document Type: Article

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