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Review of Giacomo Rizzolatti and Corrado Sinigagalia. Mirrors in the brain: How our minds share actions and emotions. [Translated from the Italian by Frances Anderson.] Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, 256 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2014

David Kemmerer*
Affiliation:
Purdue University, USA. E-mail: kemmerer@purdue.edu

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