Neural circuits involved in imitation and perspective-taking

By Philip L. Jackson, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Jean Decety. NeuroImage, 2006

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Social cognitive development during adolescence. (2006, background): “…trajectory similar to that of PFC and is associated with processes related to social cognition, such as perspective taking in the motor, conceptual and emotional domains (Ruby and Decety, 2001, 2003, 2004) and imitation of other people’s actions (Decety et al., 2002; Jackson et al., 2006).”
The Observation and Execution of Actions Share Motor and Somatosensory Voxels in all Tested Subjects: Single-Subject Analyses of Unsmoothed fMRI Data (2008, background): “Finally, including the cerebellum in action observation models is also unusual, although a number of studies have reported cerebellar activity (Leslie et al. 2004; Calvo-Merino et al. 2006; Jackson et al. 2006; Gazzola, Rizzolatti, et al. 2007).”
The neural basis of visual body perception (2007, result): “One study that brings this proposal into question found that group-average fMRI activity in a region that is similar to the EBA (along with other parts of the visual cortex) was greater when participants observed actions in order to imitate them, rather than simply observe them — a finding that woul”
Is emotional contagion special? An fMRI study on neural systems for affective and cognitive empathy (2008, background): “Second, the motor representation of an action is activated more strongly when the observed action is perceived from first-person versus third-person viewpoint (Jackson et al., 2006), suggesting a viewpoint-specific representation of the actions.”
Phonetic learning as a pathway to language: new data and native language magnet theory expanded (NLM-e) (2008, background): “As in the human imitation of action in infants and adults (Meltzoff & Moore 1997; Jackson et al. 2006), and similar to the bird model, we posit that infants store sensory information during the early months of life, when speech production remains primitive and highly variable.”