What imitation tells us about social cognition: a rapprochement between developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience.

By Andrew N. Meltzoff, Jean Decety. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2003

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

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The case for motor involvement in perceiving conspecifics. (2005, background): “…actions, and the intentions and goals behind those actions, perhaps leading ultimately to theory of mind (Arbib & Rizzolatti, 1996; Buccino, Binkofski, & Riggio, 2004; Gallese & Goldman, 1998; Kohler et al., 2002; Meltzoff & Decety, 2003; Rizzolatti et al., 2001, 2002; Rizzolatti & Luppino, 2001).”
The neural bases of cooperation and competition: an fMRI investigation (2004, background): “indicating that the right inferior parietal cortex plays a role in the distinction between self-produced actions and actions generated by others (e.g., Farrer and Frith, 2002; Meltzoff and Decety, 2003).”
Action experience alters 3-month-old infants' perception of others' actions. (2005, background): “7 basis for self and other actions at both a computational and a neural level (24, 25, 47).”
Brain Mechanisms in Early Language Acquisition (2010, background): “…but increasing activity that was temporally synchronized between the auditory and motor brain regions in 6- and 12-month-old infants (from Imada et al., 2006). tradition (Kuhl and Meltzoff, 1996; Meltzoff and Decety, 2003; Pulvermuller, 2005; Rizzolatti, 2005; Rizzolatti and Craighero, 2004).”
Is speech learning 'gated' by the social brain? (2007, background): “Work on 'mirror neurons' in nonhuman primates indicates a neural link between the self and other; seeing an action and producing it oneself are neurally equivalent in adult monkeys, and this ability plays a role in imitation and social understanding (Meltzoff & Decety, 2003; Rizzolatti, 2005).”
Why Observing Violence Increases the Risk of Violent Behavior by the Observer (2007, background): “Most recently this work has been connected directly with theorizing about social cognitions in adults and how they are acquired (Meltzoff & Decety, 2003).”
Using perspective taking to learn from ambiguous demonstrations (2006, background): “Keywords: Human–robot interactions; Socially guided learning; Learning by demonstration; Perspective taking”
Empathy examined through the neural mechanisms involved in imagining how I feel versus how you feel pain. (2006, background): “This perception–action coupling constitutes one important component in the neural architecture underlying empathy (Decety & Jackson, 2004; Goldman & Sripada, 2005; Meltzoff & Decety, 2003; Preston & de Waal, 2002).”
From social behaviour to brain synchronization: Review and perspectives in hyperscanning (2011, background): “Gesture imitation has been pointed out as a keystone of uman social interaction because of the ability it gives us to now others as persons like ourselves [2,3].”
Neural circuits involved in imitation and perspective-taking (2006, background): “Increased activation of the somatosensory cortex, when the participant is simply observing actions performed by others, may be a neural correlate of the fact that the visual stimulus is being registered as ‘‘Like-Me’’ and activating selfaction (Gallagher and Meltzoff, 1996; Meltzoff, 2005; Meltzoff ”
1 Imitation and Other Minds: The "Like Me" Hypothesis (2005, background): “An important task for the future is to analyze the commonalities and differences in these proposed mechanisms, and relevant papers are beginning to emerge (e.g., Meltzoff & Decety, 2003; Rizzolatti et al., 2002).”