Human newborns match tongue protrusion of disembodied human and robotic mouths

Developmental Science

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 385-394

  Soussignan, Robert ^a   Courtial, Alexis ^b   Canet, Pierre ^b   Danon Apter, Gisèle ^c   Nadel, Jacqueline ^b  

^a CENTRE DES SCIENCES DU GOÛT ET DE L ALIMENTATION   (France)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c Centre de Psychiatrie Périnatale   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FACE; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; IMITATION; MALE; MOUTH; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; TONGUE; VISION;

FACE; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOUTH; ROBOTICS; TONGUE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79954577784     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.00984.x     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Abravanel, E., & DeYong, N.G. (1991). Does object modeling elicit imitative-like gestures from young infants? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 52, 22-40.
2. Anisfeld, M. (1991). Neonatal imitation. Developmental Review, 11, 60-97.
3. Anisfeld, M. (1996). Only tongue protrusion modeling is matched by neonates. Developmental Review, 16, 149-161.
4. Batki, A., Baron-Cohen, S., Wheelwright, S., Connellan, J., & Ahluwalia, J. (2000). Is there an innate gaze module? Evidence from human neonates. Infant Behavior and Development, 23, 223-229.
5. Bickford, A. (2005). Using ELAN: a getting-started guide for use with sign languages.
6. Bird, G., Leighton, J., Press, C., & Heyes, C.M. (2007). Intact automatic imitation of human and robot actions in autism spectrum disorders. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Biological Sciences, B, 274, 3027-3031.
7. Brass, M., & Heyes, C.M. (2005). Imitation: is cognitive neuroscience solving the correspondence problem? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 489-495.
8. Calvo-Merino, B., Glaser, D.E., Grèzes, J., Passingham, R.E., & Haggard, P. (2005). Action observation and acquired motor skills: an fMRI study with expert dancers. Cerebral Cortex, 15, 1243-1249.
9. Cassia, V.M., Turati, C., & Simion, F. (2004). Can a non-specific bias toward top-heavy patterns explain newborns' face preference? Psychological Science, 15, 379-383.
10. Catmur, C., Walsh, V., & Heyes, C. (2007). Sensorimotor learning configures the mirror neuron system. Current Biology, 17, 1527-1531.
11. Cohen, J. (1988). Statistical power analysis for behavioral sciences (2nd edn.). New York: Academic Press.
12. Farroni, T., Csibra, G., Simion, F., & Johnson, M.H. (2002). Eye contact detection in humans from birth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 99, 9602-9605.
13. Fontaine, R. (1984). Imitative skills between birth and six months. Infant Behavior and Development, 7, 323-333.
14. Gazzola, V., Rizzolatti, G., Wicker, B., & Keysers, C. (2007). The anthropomorphic brain: the mirror neuron system responds to human and robotic actions. NeuroImage, 35, 1674-1684.
15. Grynszpan, O. (2006). Modified version of ELAN software, version 25, GNJ, General Public License Copyright, European contract Mathesis IST-027-574.
16. Heimann, M. (1989). Neonatal imitation, gaze aversion, and mother-infant interaction. Infant Behavior and Development, 12, 495-505.
17. Heimann, M., Nelson, K.E., & Schaller, J. (1989). Neonatal imitation of tongue protrusion and mouth opening: methodological aspects and evidence of early individual differences. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 30, 90-101.
18. Heimann, M., & Schaller, J. (1985). Imitative reactions among 14-21day old infants. Infant Mental Health Journal, 6, 31-39.
19. Heyes, C. (2001). Causes and consequences of imitation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5, 253-261.
20. Jacobson, S.W. (1979). Matching behavior in the young infant. Child Development, 50, 425-430.
21. Jones, S.S. (1996). Imitation or exploration? Young infants' matching of adults' oral gestures. Child Development, 67, 1952-1969.
22. Jones, S.S. (2006). Exploration or imitation? The effect of music on 4-week-old infants' tongue protrusions. Infant Behavior and Development, 29, 126-130.
23. Kessen, W., Salapatek, P., & Haith, M. (1972). The visual response of the human newborn to linear contour. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 13, 9-20.
24. Kugiumutzakis, G. (1985). The origin, development and function of the early infant imitation. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 35, 1-27.
25. Legerstee, M. (1991). The role of person and object in eliciting early imitation. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 51, 423-433.
26. Lepage, J.F., & Théoret, H. (2007). The mirror neuron system: grasping others' actions from birth? Developmental Science, 10, 513-523.
27. Maratos, O. (1973, April). The origin and development of imitation in the first six months of life. Paper presented at the BPS Annual Meeting, Liverpool, UK.
28. Meltzoff, A., & Moore, M. (1977). Imitation of facial and manual gestures by human neonates. Science, 198, 75-78.
29. Meltzoff, A., & Moore, M. (1983). Newborn infants imitate adult facial gestures. Child Development, 54, 702-709.
30. Meltzoff, A., & Moore, M. (1989). Imitation in newborn infants: exploring the range of gestures imitated and the underlying mechanisms. Developmental Psychology, 25, 954-962.
31. Meltzoff, A.N., & Moore, M.K. (1994). Imitation, memory, and the representation of persons. Infant Behavior and Development, 17, 83-99.
32. Meltzoff, A.N., & Moore, M.K. (1997). Explaining facial imitation: a theoretical model. Early Development and Parenting, 6, 179-192.
33. Miranda, S.B., & Fantz, R.L. (1971). Distribution of visual attention by newborn infants among patterns varying in size and number of details. Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, 6, 181-182.
34. Nadel, J., & Butterworth, G. (1999). Imitation in infancy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
35. Nagy, E., Compagne, H., Orvos, H., Pal, A., Molnar, P., Janszky, I., Loveland, K.A., & Bardo, G. (2005). Index finger movement imitation by human neonates: motivation, learning, and left-hand preference. Pediatric Research, 58, 749-753.
36. Nyström, P. (2008). The infant mirror neuron system studied with high density EEG. Social Neuroscience, 3, 334-347.
37. Oberman, L.M., McCleery, J.P., Ramachandran, V.S., & Pineda, J.A. (2007). EEG evidence for mirror neuron activity during the observation of human and robot actions: toward an analysis of the human qualities of interactive robots. Neurocomputing, 70, 2194-2203.
38. Piaget, J. (1945). La formation du symbole chez l'enfant. Neuchâtel: Delachaux & Niestlé.
39. 'imitation néonatale. Enfance, 4, 409-414.
40. Press, C., Bird, G., Flach, R., & Heyes, C. (2005). Robotic movement elicits automatic imitation. Cognitive Brain Research, 25, 632-640.
41. Reissland, N. (1988). Neonatal imitation in the first hour of life: observations in rural Nepal. Developmental Psychology, 24, 464-469.
42. Simion, F., Farroni, T., Cassia, V.M., Turati, C., & Barba, B.D. (2002). Newborns' local processing in schematic facelike configurations. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 20, 465-478.
43. Slater, A., Morison, V., Town, C., & Rose, D. (1985). Movement perception and identity constancy in the new-born baby. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 3, 211-220.
44. Slater, A., Rose, D., & Morison, V. (1984). New-born infants' perception of similarities and differences between two- and three-dimensional stimuli. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2, 287-294.
45. Soussignan, R., Schaal, B., & Marlier, L. (1999). Olfactory alliesthesia in human neonates: prandial state and stimulus familiarity modulate facial and autonomic responses to milk odors. Developmental Psychobiology, 35, 3-14.
46. Turati, C., & Simion, F. (2002). Newborns' recognition of changing and unchanging aspects of schematic faces. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 83, 239-261.
47. Vinter, A. (1986). The role of movement in eliciting early imitations. Child Development, 57, 66-71.
48. Zack, E., Barr, R., Gerhardstein, P., Dickerson, K., & Meltzoff, A.N. (2009). Infant imitation from television using novel touch screen technology. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 27, 13-26.
49. 'imitation chez le nouveau-né. Enfance, 10, 135-142.