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Direct linkCook, Richard; Dickinson, Anthony; Heyes, Cecilia – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2012
Automatic imitation--the unintended copying of observed actions--is thought to be a behavioral product of the mirror neuron system (MNS). Evidence that the MNS develops through associative learning comes from previous research showing that automatic imitation is attenuated by countermirror training, in which the observation of one action is paired…
Descriptors: Imitation, Ambiguity (Context), Context Effect, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
