The mirror mechanism is a basic brain mechanism that transforms sensory representations
of others' behaviour into one's own motor or visceromotor representations concerning that …

▪ Abstract A category of stimuli of great importance for primates, humans in particular, is that
formed by actions done by other individuals. If we want to survive, we must understand the …

This article provides an update of the Theory of Event Coding (TEC), which claims that
perception and action are identical processes operating on the same codes–event files …

What are the neural bases of action understanding? Although this capacity could merely
involve visual analysis of the action, it has been argued that we actually map this visual …

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 …

Figure 59.1: Left: A robot learns how to make a chess move (namely moving the queen
forward) by generalizing across different demonstrations of the task performed in slightly …

Contemporary strategies to promote motor recovery following stroke focus on repetitive
voluntary movements. Although successful movement relies on efficient sensorimotor …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 136 (6) of
Psychological Bulletin (see record 2010-20845-001). In the Online First Publication of the …

Abstract “Automatic imitation” is a type of stimulus-response compatibility effect in which the
topographical features of task-irrelevant action stimuli facilitate similar, and interfere with …