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Giacomo Rizzolatti1, Stefano Rozzi2

  • 1Institute of Neuroscience, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Parma, Italy; Brain Center for Social and Motor Cognition, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Parma, Italy.

Handbook of Clinical Neurology
|March 10, 2018
PubMed

Keywords:
action understandinggoal codingmirror areas in humansmirror areas in monkeysmirror mechanismmotor intention understandingtool use

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