Automatic imitation: A meta-analysis.

E Cracco, L Bardi, C Desmet, O Genschow… - Psychological …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Automatic imitation is the finding that movement execution is facilitated by compatible and
impeded by incompatible observed movements. In the past 15 years, automatic imitation has …

Reaction time indices of automatic imitation measure imitative response tendencies

E Cracco, M Brass - Consciousness and cognition, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract In his review, Ramsey (2018) argues that it is currently unclear what reaction time
indices of automatic imitation measure due to lacking research on their validity and domain …

Not so automatic imitation: Expectation of incongruence reduces interference in both autism spectrum disorder and typical development

A Gordon, R Geddert, J Hogeveen, MK Krug… - Journal of Autism and …, 2020 - Springer
Research has observed evidence for both hypo-(supposedly due to a broken mirror neuron
system) and hyper-(thought to be the result of deficits in adaptive control) imitation in autism …

Overt orienting of spatial attention and corticospinal excitability during action observation are unrelated

S Betti, U Castiello, S Guerra, L Sartori - PLoS One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Observing moving body parts can automatically activate topographically corresponding
motor representations in the primary motor cortex (M1), the so-called direct matching. Novel …

Automatic facial reactions to facial, body, and vocal expressions: A stimulus‐response compatibility study

G Shaham, M Mortillaro, H Aviezer - Psychophysiology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
When perceiving emotional facial expressions there is an automatic tendency to react with a
matching facial expression. A classic explanation of this phenomenon, termed the matched …

Automatically controlled: Task irrelevance fully cancels otherwise automatic imitation.

E Hemed, I Mark-Tavger, U Hertz… - Journal of …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Automatic imitation refers to the act of unintentionally mimicking observed actions. Inspired
by a theoretical framework that allows for controlled yet unintentional processes, we tested …

Sensitivity to perception level differentiates two subnetworks within the mirror neuron system

S Simon, R Mukamel - Social cognitive and affective …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Mirror neurons are a subset of brain cells that discharge during action execution and
passive observation of similar actions. An open question concerns the functional role of their …

Development of the online imitation-inhibition task to investigate modulations of automatic imitation

M Westfal - 2024 - kups.ub.uni-koeln.de
People automatically imitate a wide range of different behaviors. One of the most commonly
used measurement methods to assess imitative behavior is the imitation-inhibition task …

Dealing with others: investigations on automatic and controlled processes in Social Cognitive Neuroscience.

A Mattiassi - 2015 - air.uniud.it
Human beings are social animals. By living in society with other individuals, the number of
social stimuli is due to be higher than when living alone. Thus, correctly and efficiently …