Contagious yawning and the frontal lobe: an fMRI study

Fatta B Nahab1, Noriaki Hattori, Ziad S Saad

  • 1Human Motor Control Section, Medical Neurology Branch, National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. nahabf@ninds.nih.gov

Human Brain Mapping
|October 22, 2008
PubMed
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