The mirror neuron: How imitating our role models shapes our . . . The exact influence of our brain's 'mirror' neuron is debated by neuroscientists, but research has shown that imitation is critical to social and emotional learning, whatever part of the brain it comes from
Does the brain know who is at the origin of what in an . . . Indeed, it allows compare brain activities associated with two roles (model and imitator) in two conditions: a spontaneous imitation (SI) condition where the roles of model and imitator are freely negotiated by the partners themselves, and an induced imitation (II) condition where the repartition of roles is instructed (please imitate the
The neurocognitive mechanisms of imitation - ScienceDirect This brief review presents a basic neurocognitive model of the processes involved in imitation In this model, a core visuomotor stream in parietal-premotor cortex together with (social) control signals from prefrontal cortex allow humans to engage in detailed, selective imitation of actions
Inter-Brain Synchronization during Social Interaction Freely exchanging the role of imitator and model is a well-framed example of interactional synchrony resulting from a mutual behavioral negotiation How the participants' brain
A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality To further test which brain regions reflected a multivariate R S, we asked which of the significant vividness decoding searchlights (p<0 001 uncorrected) also demonstrated other effects that activity patterns tracking an R S should show according to our model simulations (Figure 2C) Specifically, we asked whether these regions carried a signal