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Christian Keysers1, Frédéric Michon2
1Social Brain Lab, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Royal Netherlands Academy of Art and Sciences, 1105 BA, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; University of Amsterdam, Department of Psychology, Brain & Cognition, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Neuron
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Abstract:
In this issue of Neuron, Yokose et al. show that mice groom a mark on their forehead when exposed to a mirror. Comparing this behavior with hominids' helps carve self-awareness into its component parts and explore the neural mechanisms of its shared components.
