Newborn infants imitate adult facial gestures.

By Andrew N. Meltzoff, M. K. Moore. 1983

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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].”
What imitation tells us about social cognition: a rapprochement between developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience. (2003, background): “One needs to determine whether monkeys are born with functioning mirror neurons that activate the first time the animal sees an act, which would be equivalent to the newborn work done by Meltzoff & Moore (1983, 1989) with 42-minute-old human infants.”
Words and the mind : how words capture human experience (2010, background): “Infants less than an hour old imitate facial movements (Meltzoff & Moore, 1983), and within a few weeks they can even imitate simple manual gestures (Meltzoff & Moore, 1977), suggesting an innate ability to perceive and interpret body parts.”
The processing of audio-visual speech: empirical and neural bases (2008, unknown): “Following the classical studies of Meltzoff and colleagues, which showed that human neonates imitate visually observed mouth movements (Meltzoff & Moore 1983 ), the ability to imitate the visually observed actions of others has become the focus of studies that suggest that frontal cortical regions…”
Two-month-old infants match phonetic information in lips and voice (2003, background): “Indeed, 2-month-old infants are capable of pre-speech mouth movements and imitate other mouth movements such as tongue protrusion, lip pursing and mouth opening (Meltzoff & Moore, 1983).”
The evolution of learning (2004, background): “The proximity of the face might then elicit the same reaction because the infant attempts to nurse the experimenter’s face (Meltzoff & Moore, 1983).”
Regulating the costs of empathy: the price of being human (2001, background): “Within the human species, even the very youngest demonstrate these skills – for example, newborn infants cry when other infants cry (Meltzoff & Moore, 1983).”
Translating developmental time across mammalian species. (2001, background): “At birth , complex sen - sory dimensions can be learned and acted upon ( Meltzo¡ and Moore , 1983 ; Meltzo¡ , 1990 ) and postnatal appre - ciation of the a¡ordances of the environment and inter - modal interactions are very rapid ( Gibson et al .”
1 Imitation and Other Minds: The "Like Me" Hypothesis (2005, background): “•Mouth opening: Fontaine, 1984; Heimann, 1989, 2002; Heimann et al., 1989; Heimann & Schaller, 1985; Kugiumutzakis, 1999; Legerstee, 1991; Maratos, 1982; Meltzoff & Moore, 1977, 1983, 1992, 1994 •Hand movements: Meltzoff & Moore, 1977; Vinter, 1986 •Emotional expressions: Field et al., 1983, 1986,”
Recognizing emotion from facial expressions: psychological and neurological mechanisms. (2002, background): “…(2001) (sample N = 26) and A. K. Anderson et al. (2000) (sample N = 23) found evidence that subjects with right temporal lobectomy were impaired, as a group, in their recognition of some negative emotions from facial expressions, despite intact basic visual perception (cf. Mendola et al., 1999).”
Putting Education in “Educational” Apps (2015, background): “From within an hour of birth, infants will imitate a social partner’s tongue protrusion (Meltzoff & Moore, 1983), and by 12 to 21 days, they can imitate both facial expressions and manual gestures (Meltzoff & Moore, 1977).”
Emotional intelligence and the recognition of emotion from facial expressions. (2002, background): “3 Infants also appear able to discriminate between facial expressions, to imitate them, and to comprehend their emotional tenor (Field, Woodson, Greenberg, & Cohen, 1983; Fridlund, Ekman, & Oster, 1984; Meltzoff & Moore, 1983; Zebrowitz, 1997).”
Intermodal Perception and Selective Attention to Intersensory Redundancy: Implications for Typical Social Development and Autism (2010, background): “feedback and shows evidence of active intermodal mapping (Meltzoff & Moore, 1983, 1994).”
A Role for Somatosensory Cortices in the Visual Recognition of Emotion as Revealed by Three-Dimensional Lesion Mapping (2000, background): “…by volitional contraction of specific muscles induces components of the emotional state normally associated with that expression (Adelmann and Zajonc, 1989; Levenson et al., 1990), and it is consonant also with the finding of spontaneous facial mimicry in infants (Meltzoff and Moore, 1983).”