Ten years ago, Perspectives in Psychological Science published the Mirror Neuron Forum,
in which authors debated the role of mirror neurons in action understanding, speech …

Academic Abstract Interpersonal synchrony, the alignment of behavior and/or physiology
during interactions, is a pervasive phenomenon observed in diverse social contexts. Here …

Although a reflective self-awareness is often considered to be the pinnacle of human
consciousness, it takes time to develop, and behaviors indicating a conceptual self …

Cognitive gadgets are distinctively human cognitive mechanisms–such as imitation, mind
reading, and language–that have been shaped by cultural rather than genetic evolution …

Humans are widely considered the most socially sophisticated species on the planet. Their
remarkable abilities in navigating the social world have given rise to complex societies and …

What makes fast, cumulative cultural evolution work? Where did it come from? Why is it the
sole preserve of humans? We set out a self-assembly hypothesis: cultural evolution evolved …

The question of how young infants learn to imitate others' facial expressions has been
central in developmental psychology for decades. Facial imitation has been argued to …

Interpersonal motor alignment is a ubiquitous behavior in daily social life. It is a building
block for higher social cognition, including empathy and mentalizing and promotes positive …

Neonatal imitation is widely accepted as fact and cited as evidence of an inborn mirror
neuron system that underpins human social behaviour, even though its existence has been …

The purpose of this review was twofold:(1) to examine how copy behaviors (CB) have been
studied in mother-infant natural interactions from 0 to 24 months, and (2) to determine to …