Imitation, mirror neurons and autism.

By Justin H. G. Williams, Andrew Whiten, Thomas Suddendorf, David I. Perrett. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 2001

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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A perception-action model for empathy (2007, background): “…and recognition of expressions and gestures, making it likely that autism is characterized by an impairment early on in the perception-action pathway, such as in attending to the relevant stimuli in order to perceive and learn from the emotional states of others (see also Williams et al., 2001).”
Understanding the Nature of Face Processing Impairment in Autism: Insights From Behavioral and Electrophysiological Studies (2005, background): “We speculate that this difficulty might stem from abnormalities in either (a) the reward system per se (W. Schultz, 1998) or (b) neural systems that might be important for the perception of social reward such as ability to form representations of others as “like me,” that is, similar to self in some”
Being Together in Time: Musical Experience and the Mirror Neuron System (2009, background): “Furthermore, dysfunction of the MNS has been proposed as a possible cause of autism (Williams et al., 2001).”
Emotional Empathy as Related to Mimicry Reactions at Different Levels of Information Processing (2003, background): “The biologically prepared tendency towards neural mirroring of the movements of others has been proposed to explain children’s development of an understanding of the internal state of others (Gallese, 2001; Williams et al., 2001; Wolf et al., 2001).”
Understanding autism: insights from mind and brain. (2003, background): “Other theories are being offered that revolve around further potentially primary neuro-cognitive deficits, for instance, documented impairments in imitation in autism that have been speculatively related to an abnormal functioning of mirror neurons (Williams et al. 2001).”
Neuronal correlates of theory of mind and empathy: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study in a nonverbal task (2006, background): “, 1997) and the discovery of mirror neurons (Williams et al., 2001), might add weight to the simulation theory.”
The mirror neuron system. (2009, neutral): “Indeed, a role of mirror system dysfunction has recently been hypothesized for autism spectrum disorder.(32,33) Autism spectrum disorder is most likely a polygenetic disorder that is expressed as impairment of gray matter architecture and of corticocortical intrahemispheric connections.”
Gender differences in brain networks supporting empathy (2008, result): “Taken together, these results give rise to the assumption that a deficient mirror neuron system may play a role in autistic symptoms (Williams et al., 2001).”