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Mirroring ‘meaningful’ actions: Sensorimotor learning modulates imitation of goal-directed actions

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Imitation is important in the development of social and technological skills throughout the lifespan. Experiments investigating the acquisition and modulation of imitation (and of its proposed neural substrate, the mirror neuron system) have produced evidence that the capacity for imitation depends on associative learning in which connections are formed between sensory and motor representations of actions. However, evidence that the development of imitation depends on associative learning has...

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10.1080/17470218.2017.1344257

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Oxford college:
University College
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SAGE Publications
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Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology More from this journal
Volume:
72
Issue:
2
Pages:
322-334
Publication date:
2017-06-19
Acceptance date:
2017-06-11
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1747-0226
ISSN:
1747-0218
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729950
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2017-09-21

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