Assisted imitation: Affordances, effectivities, and the mirror system in early language development

Action to Language Via the Mirror Neuron System

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 469-500

  Zukow Goldring, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511541599.015     Document Type: Chapter

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