Mirror neuron research: The past and the future

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1644, 2014, Pages

  Ferrari, Pier Francesco ^a   Rizzolatti, Giacomo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Empathy; Epigenetics; Motor cognition; Social development; Understanding others

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899645319     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0169     Document Type: Editorial

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