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DOI: 10.24075/vmedpsy.2024–02.04
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ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Neurophysiology of social interactions: various aspects of the functioning of the mirror neuron system.

Karimova ED
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Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Received: 2024-11-05 Accepted: 2024-12-15 Published online: 2025-01-05
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