Dyadic brain modelling, mirror systems and the ontogenetic ritualization of ape gesture

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1644, 2014, Pages

  Arbib, Michael ^a,b   Ganesh, Varsha ^a   Gasser, Brad ^b  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Dyadic brain modelling; Gesture in apes; Mirror neuron systems; Neural models; Ontogenetic ritualization

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BRAIN; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONTOGENY; PRIMATE; SIMULATION;

EID: 84899633655     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0414     Document Type: Article

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