Developmental and comparative perspectives of contagious yawning

Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue , 2010, Pages 113-119

  Senju, Atsushi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; AUTISM; COMMUNICATION SKILL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTAGIOUS YAWNING; DISEASE COURSE; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EMPATHY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRESS; VIDEOTAPE; YAWNING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CHILD; IMITATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; DOGS; EMPATHY; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YAWNING;

EID: 84925957155     PISSN: 16604431     EISSN: 16622804     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000307088     Document Type: Review

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