When mirroring is both simple and "smart": How mimicry can be embodied, adaptive, and non-representational

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JULY, 2014, Pages

  Carr, Evan W ^a,b   Winkielman, Piotr ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Embodiment; Imitation; Mimicry; Mirror neurons; Social learning

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; MIRROR NEURON; NEUROSCIENCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 84904366194     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00505     Document Type: Article

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