Neural mechanisms of imitation

M Iacoboni - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2005 - Elsevier
Recent advances in our knowledge of the neural mechanisms of imitation suggest that there
is a core circuitry of imitation comprising the superior temporal sulcus and the ‘mirror neuron

Common and differential neural mechanisms supporting imitation of meaningful and meaningless actions

RI Rumiati, PH Weiss, A Tessari, A Assmus… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2005 - direct.mit.edu
… the neural mechanisms associated with imitation of MF and ML actions. The design specifically
aimed at revealing parametric modulation of rCBF in the brain areas sustaining imitation

Neural mechanisms of imitation and 'mirror neuron'functioning in autistic spectrum disorder

JHG Williams, GD Waiter, A Gilchrist, DI Perrett… - Neuropsychologia, 2006 - Elsevier
imitation that was evident in the controls. This may have implications for understanding the
imitation of … with altered patterns of brain activity during imitation, which could stem from poor …

Neurobiology of imitation

M Iacoboni - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2009 - Elsevier
… Control neural mechanisms of imitation Mirroring neural mechanisms may efficiently
implement forms of automatic imitation but may not be sufficient for imitative learning and for the …

Causes and consequences of imitation

C Heyes - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2001 - cell.com
… deficits in autism, and unintentional imitation in adult … imitation and intentional imitation in
infancy, and evidence suggesting that the left inferior frontal gyrus is specialized for imitation. At …

Neural mirroring mechanisms and imitation in human infants

PJ Marshall, AN Meltzoff - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Studying human infants will increase our understanding of the nature, origins and function of
neural mirroring mechanisms. Human infants are prolific imitators. Infant imitation indicates …

A PET exploration of the neural mechanisms involved in reciprocal imitation

J Decety, T Chaminade, J Grèzes, AN Meltzoff - Neuroimage, 2002 - Elsevier
neurological and psychiatric pathologies. We believe that imitation paradigm focusing on
mutual relations is suited to tackle this question of intersubjectivity since the visual and the …

Neural mechanisms of empathy in humans: a relay from neural systems for imitation to limbic areas

L Carr, M Iacoboni, MC Dubeau… - Proceedings of the …, 2003 - National Acad Sciences
How do we empathize with others? A mechanism according to which action representation
modulates emotional activity may provide an essential functional architecture for empathy. …

Are there dedicated neural mechanisms for imitation? A study of grist and mills

E Renner, Y Xie, F Subiaul, AFC Hamilton - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
… If we seek to understand neural mechanisms of imitative learning, we need to include
occipital regions too. EBA and the other parts of occipital cortex highlighted here respond to …

The neurocognitive mechanisms of imitation

AF de C Hamilton - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2015 - Elsevier
… Researchers studying human imitation have parsed imitation into copying of goals (emulation) …
about the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying different types of imitation, and …