Empathy features a tension between automaticity and context dependency. On the one
hand, people often take on each other's internal states reflexively and outside of awareness …

This article argues that mirror neurons originate in sensorimotor associative learning and
therefore a new approach is needed to investigate their functions. Mirror neurons were …

Abstract Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have basic motor impairments in
balance, gait, and coordination as well as autism-specific impairments in praxis/motor …

Behavioral mimicry—the automatic imitation of gestures, postures, mannerisms, and other
motor movements—is pervasive in human interactions. The current review focuses on two …

Recently, scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, using a variety of scientific techniques,
have begun to study the influence of attention, facial mimicry, and social context on …

The tendency to mimic and synchronize with others is well established. Although mimicry
has been shown to lead to affiliation between co-actors, the effect of interpersonal synchrony …

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

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 …

There is a convergence between cognitive models of imitation, constructs derived from
social psychology studies on mimicry and empathy, and recent empirical findings from the …

When two or more people coordinate their actions in space and time to produce a joint
outcome, they perform a joint action. The perceptual, cognitive, and motor processes that …