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| C M HeyesSummaryAffiliation: University College London Country: UK Publications
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Sensorimotor experience enhances automatic imitation of robotic actionClare Press
Department of Psychology, University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AP, UK
Proc Biol Sci 274:2509-14. 2007....
Theory of mind in nonhuman primatesC M Heyes
Department of Psychology, University College London, United Kingdom
Behav Brain Sci 21:101-14; discussion 115-48. 1998..It uses conditional discrimination training and transfer tests to determine whether chimpanzees have the concept "see." Commentators are invited to identify flaws in the procedure and to suggest alternatives...- Motor learning by observation: evidence from a serial reaction time taskC M Heyes
University College, London, UK
Q J Exp Psychol A 55:593-607. 2002.... - Experience modulates automatic imitationCecilia Heyes
Department of Psychology and Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 22:233-40. 2005..This outcome is consistent with the hypothesis that, rather than being innate, the cortical connections mediating motor activation by action observation are formed through experience... - Spatial S-R compatibility effects in an intentional imitation taskCecilia Heyes
University College London, London, England
Psychon Bull Rev 11:703-8. 2004..These findings, in line with general process theories of imitation, imply that intentional imitation is mediated by the same processes that mediate responding to inanimate stimuli on the basis of arbitrary S-R mappings... - Four routes of cognitive evolutionCecilia Heyes
University College London, Department of Psychology, London, England
Psychol Rev 110:713-27. 2003.... - Robotic movement elicits automatic imitationClare Press
Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1H OAP, UK
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 25:632-40. 2005..They also indicate, as one would expect if this system develops through learning, that to varying degrees both human and robotic action can be 'simulated' by the premotor and parietal cortices... - Do rats in a two-action test encode movement egocentrically or allocentrically?E D Ray
Department of Psychology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Anim Cogn 5:245-52. 2002..With particular reference to the influence of scent cues, the results are discussed in relation to the strengths and weaknesses of this and other varieties of the two-action procedure as tests of imitation in animals and human infants... - Automatic imitation of intransitive actionsClare Press
Department of Psychology, University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AP, UK
Brain Cogn 67:44-50. 2008..This experiment therefore provides evidence of automatic imitation of intransitive actions, and support for the hypothesis that human and monkey mirror systems differ with respect to the processing of intransitive actions... 
Weak imitative performance is not due to a functional 'mirroring' deficit in adults with Autism Spectrum DisordersJane Leighton
Department of Psychology, UCL, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AP, UK
Neuropsychologia 46:1041-9. 2008..These findings add to the weight of evidence suggesting that impairments in imitation skills should not be cited as evidence consistent with a 'mirror system deficit theory' of ASD...- Visuotactile learning and body representation: an ERP study with rubber hands and rubber objectsClare Press
Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London, UK
J Cogn Neurosci 20:312-23. 2008..These late modulations were absent when the stimulation of a rubber hand and the participant's own hand was uncorrelated during training, suggesting that preexisting body representations may affect later stages of tactile processing... - Experience-based priming of body parts: a study of action imitationHelge Gillmeister
University College London, UK
Brain Res 1217:157-70. 2008..Our results also support the hypothesis that the development of imitation and the mirror neuron system are driven by correlated sensorimotor learning... - Stimulus-driven selection of routes to imitationClare Press
Department of Psychology, University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AP, UK
Exp Brain Res 188:147-52. 2008.... - Through the looking glass: counter-mirror activation following incompatible sensorimotor learningCaroline Catmur
Department of Psychology, University College London, London, UK
Eur J Neurosci 28:1208-15. 2008..These results suggest that, rather than being innate or the product of unimodal visual or motor experience, the mirror properties of the mirror system are acquired through sensorimotor learning... - Imitation of lateralised body movements: doing it the hard wayClare Press
Department of Psychology, University College London, UK
Laterality 14:515-27. 2009.... - Action preparation helps and hinders perception of actionClare Press
Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, University College London, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
J Cogn Neurosci 22:2198-211. 2010..Such effects of action on perception are likely to be crucial, not only for the control of our own actions but also in sociocultural interaction, allowing us to predict the reactions of others to our own actions... - Intact automatic imitation of human and robot actions in autism spectrum disordersGeoffrey Bird
Department of Psychology, University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AP, UK
Proc Biol Sci 274:3027-31. 2007..The ASD group also showed an automatic imitation effect and a larger animacy bias than the Control group. We discuss these findings with reference to the literature on imitation in ASD and theories of imitation... - Sensorimotor learning configures the human mirror systemCaroline Catmur
Department of Psychology, University College London, London, UK
Curr Biol 17:1527-31. 2007..Our findings indicate that the human mirror system is, to some extent, both a product and a process of social interaction... - Effector-dependent learning by observation of a finger movement sequenceGeoffrey Bird
Department of Psychology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 31:262-75. 2005..Free generation and recognition tests also detected observational learning. These results imply that observational learning can be both explicit and effector dependent... - Acquisition of automatic imitation is sensitive to sensorimotor contingencyRichard Cook
Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 36:840-52. 2010..If this is correct, associative learning theory could be used to explain, predict, and intervene in mirror system development... - Sequence learning by action, observation and action observationGeoffrey Bird
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University College London, UK
Br J Psychol 96:371-88. 2005..These findings are consistent with a connection between motor systems and implicit learning, but do not support the hypothesis that overt action is necessary for implicit learning... - Bottom-up, not top-down, modulation of imitation by human and robotic modelsClare Press
Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1H OAP, UK
Eur J Neurosci 24:2415-9. 2006..However, the subjects' beliefs about the animacy of the stimuli did not affect their performance. These results suggest that bottom-up processing is primarily responsible for the visuomotor priming advantage of human stimuli... - Action observation supports effector-dependent learning of finger movement sequencesMagda Osman
Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
Exp Brain Res 165:19-27. 2005..This group did not observe the model's responses. Results suggested that action observation was necessary for the effector-dependent observational learning demonstrated in Experiment 1... - Budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) copy virtual demonstrators in a two-action testKieron Mottley
Department of Psychology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
J Comp Psychol 117:363-70. 2003..These findings provide the first demonstration of which the authors are aware that birds are able not only to detect and respond to a moving video image but also to copy its movements... - Associative sequence learning: the role of experience in the development of imitation and the mirror systemCaroline Catmur
Department of Psychology, University College London, London WC1H 0AP, UK
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 364:2369-80. 2009..We discuss the implications of the evidence reviewed for the evolution, development and intentional control of imitation... - 'Goals' are not an integral component of imitationJane Leighton
Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
Cognition 114:423-35. 2010.... - The interaction between response effects during the acquisition of response primingRüdiger Flach
Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London SE14 6NW, UK
Acta Psychol (Amst) 122:11-26. 2006..By contrast, priming by the visual effect stimulus was potentiated when the auditory effect had been pre-trained. We interpret these interactions in terms of contemporary associative learning theory derived from studies of conditioning... - General processes, rather than "goals," explain imitation errorsGeoffrey Bird
Department of Psychology and Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, United Kingdom
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 33:1158-69. 2007..g., the associative sequence learning model, ideomotor theory), these findings suggest that imitation is no more or less goal directed than other tasks involving action observation... - The discrimination of natural movement by budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulates) and pigeons (Columba livia)Rosetta Mui
School of Psychology, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 33:371-80. 2007..Instead, this type of discrimination appears to be controlled by dynamic cues derived from changes in the posture of the demonstrators... - Imitation: is cognitive neuroscience solving the correspondence problem?Marcel Brass
Department of Cognitive Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstrasse 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Trends Cogn Sci 9:489-95. 2005..This imitative capacity depends on learned perceptual-motor links. Finally, mechanisms distinguishing self from other are implicated in the inhibition of imitative behaviour... - Infants' behavioral reenactment of "failed attempts": exploring the roles of emulation learning, stimulus enhancement, and understanding of intentionsChi-Tai Huang
Department of Human Development, Tzu-Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan
Dev Psychol 38:840-55. 2002..This pattern of findings suggests that nonimitative social learning processes may influence infants' response in the behavioral reenactment paradigm...