Cooper, Richard P. and Catmur, C. and Heyes, C. (2013) Are automatic imitation and spatial compatibility mediated by different processes? Cognitive Science 37 (4), pp. 605-630. ISSN 0364-0213.
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Abstract
Automatic imitation or ‘imitative compatibility’ is thought to be mediated by the mirror neuron system and to be a laboratory model of the motor mimicry that occurs spontaneously in naturalistic social interaction. Imitative compatibility and spatial compatibility effects are known to depend on different stimulus dimensions – body movement topography and relative spatial position. However, it is not yet clear whether these two types of stimulus-response compatibility effect are mediated by the same or different cognitive processes. We present an interactive activation model of imitative and spatial compatibility, based on a dual-route architecture, which substantiates the view they are mediated by processes of the same kind. The model, which is in many ways a standard application of the interactive activation approach, simulates all key results of a recent study by Catmur and Heyes (2011). Specifically, it captures the difference in the relative size of imitative and spatial compatibility effects; the lack of interaction when the imperative and irrelevant stimuli are presented simultaneously; the relative speed of responses in a quintile analysis when the imperative and irrelevant stimuli are presented simultaneously; and the different time courses of the compatibility effects when the imperative and irrelevant stimuli are presented asynchronously.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | 24 month embargo from date of publication |
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Automatic imitation, imitative compatibility, dual-route model, interactive activation, mirror neuron system, spatial compatibility |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Rick Cooper |
| Date Deposited: | 15 May 2013 08:26 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:03 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/6761 |
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