Imitation of Facial and Manual Gestures by Human Neonates

By Andrew N. Meltzoff, M. Keith Moore. 1977

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Visual Imitation Made Easy (2020, background): “A powerful technique to learn complex robotic skills is to imitate them from humans [1, 2, 3, 4].”
Self-organizing neural integration of pose-motion features for human action recognition (2015, background): “The ability of neonates to imitate manual gestures suggests that the recognition of complex motion may depend on innate neural mechanisms (Meltzoﬀ and Moore, 1977).”
Action experience alters 3-month-old infants' perception of others' actions. (2005, background): “Meltzoff has demonstrated increasingly sophisticated imitation of other people's actions throughout infancy: neonates are capable of imitating bodily-directed acts of others (49), 9-month-”
The mirror neuron system and the consequences of its dysfunction (2006, methodology): “Also, imitation of facial and hand gestures in human infants has been demonstrated by Meltzoff and Moor”
The Role of Gesture in Learning: Do Children Use Their Hands to Change Their Minds? (2006, background): “Adults have been shown to mimic nonverbal behaviors that their conversational partners produce (e.g., their partner’s facial expressions or idiosyncratic motor behaviors, Chartrand & Bargh, 1999) and even very young infants can imitate nonverbal behaviors modeled by an experimenter ( Meltzoff & Moor”
Brain basis of human social interaction: from concepts to brain imaging. (2009, background): “One highly socially relevant, but puzzling and still debated, phenomenon is the imitation of facial gestures by newborn infants (160).”
Meaning = Life (+ Culture): An outline of a unified biocultural theory of meaning (2001, background): “Rather, it has been convincingly shown that we are born not only with sense and motor organs, but also with at least some elementary skills for using them in perception (Bower, 1973), motor activity (von Holsten, 1983) and imitation (Meltzoff and Moore, 1977).”
Synesthesia: a new approach to understanding the development of perception. (2013, background): “Newborn babies appear to imitate tongue protrusion: When an adult model sticks out his tongue repeatedly, the baby's tongue is likely to begin to protrude (Meltzoff & Moore, 1977).”
Infant's brain responses to live and televised action (2006, background): “However, imitation is also possible by newborn infants (Meltzoff and Moore, 1977) as well as 6- to 9-month-old infants (Learmonth et al.”
The Origins of 12-Month Attachment: A Microanalysis of 4-Month Mother-Infant Interaction (2010, background): “By other methods, even neonates appear to discriminate among surprise, fear, and sadness in an adult model; they express this discrimination through corresponding expressions of their own (Field, Woodson, Greenberg, & Cohen, 1982 ; Meltzoff & Moore, 1977 ).”
The case for motor involvement in perceiving conspecifics. (2005, background): “Neonates show imitation of simple facial gestures such as mouth opening and tongue protrusion (Meltzoff & Moore, 1977).”
Three-month-olds, but not newborns, prefer own-race faces. (2005, background): “Furthermore, newborns will imitate an array of facial gestures performed by an adult (Meltzoff & Moore, 1977).”