We advance a novel active inference model of the cognitive processing that underlies the
acquisition of a hierarchical action repertoire and its use for observation, understanding and …

What, if anything, is special about human imitation? An evaluation of enculturated apes'
imitation skills, a “best case scenario” of non-human apes' imitation performance, reveals …

Previous studies showed that imitation of finger and hand/arm gestures could be
differentially impaired after brain damage. However, so far, the interaction between gesture …

Cognitive neuroscientists have contributed to the understanding of imitation according to
their expertise. Neuropsychologists first established over a century ago that lesions to the left …

We propose STIMA, a short test for ideo-motor apraxia, allowing us to quantify the apraxic
deficit according to action meaning and affected body segment. STIMA is based on a …

Attempts to estimate the contribution made by motor activity to insight problem solving is
hindered by a lack of detailed description of motor behavior. The goal of this study was to …

The cognitive system selects the most appropriate action imitative process: a semantic
process–relying on long-term memory representations for known actions, and low-level …

Learning about the function and use of tools through observation requires the ability to
exploit one's own knowledge derived from past experience. It also depends on the detection …

Imitation development was studied in a cross‐sectional design involving 174 primary‐school
children (aged 6–10), focusing on the effect of actions' complexity and error analysis to infer …

动作记忆是伴随动作操作和意识卷入过程的一种记忆活动, 其强调意识卷入状态和操作情景对
记忆活动的影响. 以往的研究均采用SPT 范式探讨动作记忆及其影响因素, 并提出非策略加工 …