Does the end justify the means? A PET exploration of the mechanisms involved in human imitation

NeuroImage

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 318-328

  Chaminade, Thierry ^a   Meltzoff, Andrew N ^b   Decety, Jean ^a,b,c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c CERMEP IMAGERIE DU VIVANT   (France)

Author keywords

Action; Goal; Human; Imitation; Intention; Neuroimaging

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN 15; WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0036335212     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nimg.2001.0981     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Social perception from visual cues: Role of the STS region
2. Synthetic brain imaging: Grasping, mirror neurons and imitation
3. Discerning intentions in dynamic human action
4. Imitation of gestures in children is goal-directed
5. Action perception and imitation
6. From the perception of action to the understanding of intention
7. The cerebellum is involved in predicting the sensory consequences of action
8. Action observation activates premotor and parietal areas in somatotopic manner: An fMRI study
9. Learning by imitation: A hierarchical approach
10. Brain activity during observation of actions. Influence of action content and subject's strategy
11. A PET exploration of the neural mechanisms involved in reciprocal imitation
12. Dissociable functions in the medial and lateral orbitofrontal cortex: Evidence from human neuroimaging studies
13. Motor facilitation during action observation: A magnetic stimulation study
14. Statistical parametric maps in functional imaging: A general linear approch
15. Children's coding of human action: Cognitive factors influencing imitation in 3-year-olds
16. Ideomotor apraxia and cerebral dominance for motor control
17. Visual routes to perception and action in the cerebral cortex
18. Top-down effect of strategy on the perception of human biological motion: A PET investigation
19. The effects of learning and intention on the neural network involved in the perception of meaningless actions
20. Functional anatomy of execution, mental simulation, observation and verb generation of actions: A meta-analysis
21. Recognition and imitation of pantomimed motor acts after unilateral parietal and premotor lesions: A perspective on apraxia
22. What" and "how": Evidence for the dissociation of object knowledge and mechanical problem-solving skills in the human brain
23. Detection by action: Neuropsychological evidence for action-defined templates in search
24. Cortical mechanisms of human imitation
25. Human cerebellar activity reflecting an acquired internal model of a new tool
26. Coding of visible and hidden actions
27. The preparation, execution and suppression of copied movements in the human brain
28. Understanding the intentions of others: Reenactment of intended acts by 18-month-old children
29. Like Me" as a building block for understanding other minds: Bodily acts, attention, and intention
30. Explaining facial imitation: A theoretical model
31. The prefrontal cortex and cognitive control
32. The role of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in the preparation of forthcoming actions: An fMRI study
33. Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying the understanding and the imitation of action
34. Signal-, set-, and movement-related activity in the human premotor cortex
35. Theory of Mind" and the prefrontal cortex
36. Cultural learning
37. I know what you are doing: A neurophysiological study
38. On the nature and evolution of imitation in the animal kingdom: Reappraisal of a century of research
39. Imitation of the sequential structure of actions by chimpanzees
40. Multiple paired forward and inverse models for motor control
41. Internal models in the cerebellum