Tinbergen on mirror neurons

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1644, 2014, Pages

  Heyes, Cecilia ^a  

^a ALL SOULS COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Functional analysis; Inference to the best explanation; Mirror neuron; Sensorimotor experience; Tinbergen's four problems

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; DATA ACQUISITION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGY; SURVIVORSHIP;

EID: 84899620632     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0180     Document Type: Review

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