Do you see what I mean? Corticospinal excitability during observation of culture-specific gestures.

People all over the world use their hands to communicate expressively. Autonomous gestures, also known as emblems, are highly social in nature, and convey conventionalized meaning without accompanying speech. To study the neural bases of cross-cultural social communication, we used single pulse tran...

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Main Authors: Istvan Molnar-Szakacs, Allan D Wu, Francisco J Robles, Marco Iacoboni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-07-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1913205?pdf=render