A new approach to mirror neurons: Developmental history, system-level theory and intervention experiments

Cortex

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2946-2948

  Heyes, Cecilia ^a,b  

^a ALL SOULS COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CELL FUNCTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EXPERIMENTAL MONKEY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; LEARNING THEORY; MIRROR NEURON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STANDARD; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; MIRROR NEURONS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; OBSERVATION; SERIAL LEARNING; SYSTEMS THEORY;

EID: 84889644448     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.07.002     Document Type: Note

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