Leonardo Fogassi

List of John Benjamins publications in which Leonardo Fogassi is involved.

Articles

Fogassi, Leonardo and Pier Francesco Ferrari 2009 Mirror neurons, gestures and language evolution Vocalize to Localize, Abry, Christian, Anne Vilain and Jean-Luc Schwartz (eds.), pp. 29–46 | Article

Fogassi, Leonardo and Pier Francesco Ferrari 2005 Mirror neurons, gestures and language evolution Vocalize to Localize, Abry, Christian, Anne Vilain and Jean-Luc Schwartz (eds.), pp. 345–363 | Article

Different theories have been proposed for explaining the evolution of language. One of this maintains that gestural communication has been the precursor of human speech. Here we present a series of neurophysiological evidences that support this hypothesis. Communication by gestures, defined as the… read more

Fogassi, Leonardo and Vittorio Gallese 2002 The neural correlates of action understanding in non-human primates Mirror Neurons and the Evolution of Brain and Language, Stamenov, Maxim I. and Vittorio Gallese (eds.), pp. 13–35 | Article