Mirroring and the development of action understanding

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1644, 2014, Pages

  Woodward, Amanda L ^a   Gerson, Sarah A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Action understanding; Development; Infancy; Mirroring; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; NEUROLOGY; PRIMATE;

EID: 84922070107     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0181     Document Type: Review

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