Contagious yawning: The mirror neuron system may be a candidate physiological mechanism
- 1 December 2008
- journal article
- other
- Published by Elsevier in Medical Hypotheses
- Vol. 71 (6) , 975-976
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2008.07.023
Abstract
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