When we observe a facial expression of emotion, we often mimic it. This automatic mimicry
reflects underlying sensorimotor simulation that supports accurate emotion recognition. Why …

Spontaneous mimicry appears fundamental to emotional perception and contagion,
especially when it involves facial emotional expressions. Here we cover recent evidence on …

Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder classically characterized by motor
symptoms. Among them, hypomimia affects facial expressiveness and social communication …

ABSTRACT A number of prominent theories have linked tendencies to mimick others' facial
movements to empathy and facial emotion recognition, but evidence for such links is …

In interpersonal encounters, individuals often exhibit changes in their own facial expressions
in response to emotional expressions of another person. Such changes are often called …

Since the advent of the concept of empathy in the scientific literature, it has been
hypothesized, although not necessarily empirically verified, that empathic processes are …

When approaching interpersonal first meetings (eg, job interviews), people often cater to the
target's interests and expectations to make a good impression and secure a positive …

In educational HRI, it is generally believed that a robots behavior has a direct effect on the
engagement of a user with the robot, the task at hand and also their partner in case of a …

This review explores spontaneous mimicry in the context of three questions. The first
question concerns the role of spontaneous mimicry in processing conceptual information …

Background Considerable evidence has shown that facial expression mimicry is impaired in
patients with depression. We aimed to evaluate voluntary expression mimicry by facial …