Imitation as a mechanism of social cognition: Origins of empathy, theory of mind, and the representation of action.

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How do we perceive the pain of others? A window into the neural processes involved in empathy (2005, background): “the perception–action coupling mechanism occurs at the covert level, its outcome enables the establishment of self–other equivalences that may be used to predict and understand others’ behaviors (Decety and Sommerville, 2003; Jackson and Decety, 2004; Jeannerod, 1999; Meltzoff, 2002).”
Action experience alters 3-month-old infants' perception of others' actions. (2005, background): “Acting may also provide infants with subjective information that cannot be gleaned from the observed actions of others (Meltzoff, 2002).”
The effect of perceptual availability and prior discourse on young children's use of referring expressions (2006, background): “Brooks and Meltzoff (2002) found that 12-month-olds turned significantly more often to an object when an adult had turned toward it with eyes open than with eyes closed (see also Meltzoff, 2004).”
Psychological and Sociomoral Reasoning in Infancy (2014, background): “…the agent’s eyes must be open and oriented toward the object, and that her line of sight must not be obstructed by an opaque barrier (e.g., Brooks & Meltzoff, 2002, 2005; Butler, Caron, & Brook, 2000; Caron, Kiel, Dayton, & Butler, 2002; Dunphy-Lelii & Wellman, 2004; Lempers, Flavell, & Flavell,…”