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SUBMITTER: Monfardini E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3764021 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Monfardini Elisabetta E Gazzola Valeria V Boussaoud Driss D Brovelli Andrea A Keysers Christian C Wicker Bruno B
PloS one 20130905 9
Learning what behaviour is appropriate in a specific context by observing the actions of others and their outcomes is a key constituent of human cognition, because it saves time and energy and reduces exposure to potentially dangerous situations. Observational learning of associative rules relies on the ability to map the actions of others onto our own, process outcomes, and combine these sources of information. Here, we combined newly developed experimental tasks and functional magnetic resonan ...[more]