What Is the Significance of Imitation in Animals

By Cecilia Heyes, Elizabeth D Ray. 2000

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Where do mirror neurons come from? (2010, background): “both visual and motor neurons encoding that action (Heyes and Ray, 2000; Keysers et al., 2003).”
Fifty years of bird song research: a case study in animal behaviour (2003, background): “…have been occasional attempts to argue this away (see Whiten & Ham 1992), on the grounds that vocal learning is an easier skill than visual imitation, the discovery that some birds are at least as good as many primates in copying motor skills (Heyes & Ray 2000), may set this argument on its head.”
Testing for imitative and nonimitative social learning in the budgerigar using a two-object/two-action test (2002, unknown): “The pecking/stepping effect would be less vulnerable to this interpretative problem if it had been shown conclusively, not only that observation of pecking promotes pecking, but also that observation of stepping promotes stepping (Heyes & Ray 2000).”
The role of prediction in social neuroscience (2012, background): “Another alternative account of the mirror system is based on associative learning (Heyes and Ray, 2000; Heyes, 2001), and argues that learned sensorimotor experiences, from self-observation and the observation of others, actually promote the formation and emergence of a mirror system, which is…”
Social attitudes modulate automatic imitation (2010, background): “The associative sequence learning model (Brass & Heyes, 2005; Heyes, 2001; Heyes, 2003; Heyes & Ray, 2000) suggests that mimicry is mediated by low-level mechanisms in which activation of a sensory representation of a body movement (e.g. by visual attention to that movement) necessarily results in…”
Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture (2009, background): “Hopper et al. (2007) argue that the chimpanzees in their study were not using emulation learning because they failed to learn in a condition in which the box simply operated itself (called a ghost condition; Heyes & Ray 2000; see also Tennie et al. 2006).”
Push or Pull: Imitation vs. Emulation in Great Apes and Human Children (2006, background): “…ape studies reporting evidence of imitation in problem solving situations (Whiten et al. 1996; Whiten 1998; Stoinski et al. 2001; Stoinski & Whiten 2003) have not distinguished the influence of the demonstrator’s actions from the results produced by those actions (Tomasello 1996; Heyes & Ray 2000).”