UCLA Brain Mapping Center

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Cortical mechanisms of human imitation.

Iacoboni M; Woods RP; Brass M; Bekkering H; Mazziotta JC; Rizzolatti G;
Science (New York, N.Y.). 1999-Dec-24; 286(2526-8):5449
 
How does imitation occur? How can the motor plans necessary for imitating an action derive from the observation of that action? Imitation may be based on a mechanism directly matching the observed action onto an internal motor representation of that action (
 
PMID: 10617472    doi: 10.1038/35004593
 

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