Neural Activity while Imitating Emotional Faces is Related to Both Lower and Higher-Level Social Cognitive Performance

Neural Activity while Imitating Emotional Faces is Related to Both Lower and Higher-Level Social Cognitive Performance

Abstract Imitation and observation of actions and facial emotional expressions activates the human fronto-parietal mirror network. There is skepticism regarding the role of this low-level network in more complex high-level social behaviour. We sought to test whether neural activation during an obser...

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Main Authors: Colin Hawco, Natasa Kovacevic, Anil K. Malhotra, Robert W. Buchanan, Joseph D. Viviano, Marco Iacoboni, Anthony R. McIntosh, Aristotle N. Voineskos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-04-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01316-z

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