Time course analyses confirm independence of imitative and spatial compatibility.

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Imitative compatibility, or automatic imitation, has been used as a measure of imitative performance and as a behavioral index of the functioning of the human mirror system (e.g., Brass, Bekkering, Wohlschlager, and Prinz, 2000; Heyes, Bird, Johnson, and Haggard, 2005; Kilner, Paulignan, and Blakemore, 2003). However, the use of imitative compatibility as a measure of imitation has been criticized on the grounds that imitative compatibility has been confounded with simple spatial compatibilit...

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Authors: Catmur, C; Heyes, C

• Journal: Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance
• Volume: 37
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 409-421
• Publication date: 2011-04-01
• DOI: 10.1037/a0019325
• EISSN: 1939-1277
• ISSN: 0096-1523
• Language: English
• Keywords: Movement; Psychomotor Performance; Humans; Young Adult; Adult; Space Perception; Photic Stimulation; Visual Perception; Female; Hand; Male; Electromyography; Reaction Time; Imitative Behavior; Fingers