Contingency is crucial for creating imitative responses

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue FEBRUARY, 2011, Pages

  Catmur, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84899924150     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00015     Document Type: Article

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