Explaining Facial Imitation: A Theoretical Model.

By Andrew N. Meltzoff, M. K. Moore. 1997

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Action to Language via the Mirror Neuron System: The role of vocal tract gestural action units in understanding the evolution of phonology (2006, background): “Young infants will protrude their tongues or lips selectively in response to seeing an experimenter move those organs, and will, when initiating such an imitation, cease to move organs that are not participating in the imitative movement (Meltzoff and Moore, 1997).”
Language-experience facilitates discrimination of /d-th/ in monolingual and bilingual acquisition of English. (2006, background): “For the Frenchlearning 4-year-olds, in the absence of language experience with this contrast, the discrimination abilities were maintained at the same level as those observed for Frenchlearning infants and monolingual French adults reported by Polka et al. (2001). The bilingual 4-year-olds, whose pe”
A PET Exploration of the Neural Mechanisms Involved in Reciprocal Imitation (2002, background): “Although developmental psychologists have long been concerned with imitation, the field has burgeoned with the finding that newborns imitate facial gestures, suggesting an innate system for coupling the perception and production of human acts (Meltzoff and Moore, 1977, 1997).”
First things first: infants make good use of the sympathetic rhythm of imitation, without reason or language (2005, background): “Developmental psychologists, too, have struggled with conflicting ideas about if, why and at what age children imitate (Baldwin, 1894; Guillaume, 1926; Meltzoff, 1990; Meltzoff and Moore, 1997; Nadel and Butterworth, 1999; Uzgiris, 1981, 1999; Zazzo, 1957).”
A Survey of Artificial Cognitive Systems: Implications for the Autonomous Development of Mental Capabilities in Computational Agents (2007, background): “Metzoff and Moore [179], [180] suggest that infants learn through imitation in four phases:”
'Like me': a foundation for social cognition. (2007, methodology): “Piaget, J. (1962). Play, dreams and imitation in childhood (C.”
Action experience alters 3-month-old infants' perception of others' actions. (2005, background): “According to one account (48), the actions of self and”
Simulationist models of face-based emotion recognition. (2005, background): “Alternatively, there might be an innate cross-modal matching of the sort postulated by Meltzoff and Moore (1997) to account for neonate facial imitation.”