Imitative Behavior - Research News and Information

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Investigating children as cultural magnets: do young children transmit redundant information along diffusion chains?

10 Nov 2008 The primary goal of this study was to investigate cultural transmission in young children, with specific reference to the phenomenon of overimitation. Diffusion chains were used to compare the imitation of 2- and 3-year-olds on a task in which the ... Read more...

Dogs catch human yawns.

21 Oct 2008 This study is the first to demonstrate that human yawns are possibly contagious to domestic dogs (Canis familiaris). Twenty-nine dogs observed a human yawning or making control mouth movements. Twenty-one dogs yawned when they observed a human ... Read more...

Rehabilitation of gesture imitation: a case study with fMRI.

31 Aug 2008 Acquired disorders of gesture imitation are amenable to treatment, but with poor generalisation toward gestures not included in the training program. We investigated the neural basis of this item-specific recovery in a patient with a slowly ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Imitative Behavior'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Investigating children as cultural magnets: do young children transmit redundant information along diffusion chains? 10 Nov 2008
• Dogs catch human yawns. 21 Oct 2008
• Rehabilitation of gesture imitation: a case study with fMRI. 31 Aug 2008
• A neuroscientific review of imagery and observation use in sport. 30 Aug 2008
• Exposure of US adolescents to extremely violent movies. 30 Jul 2008
• What should we do to help children with DCD. 30 Jul 2008
• [The mirror neuron theory explains empathic ability] 30 Jul 2008
• Internalization of the ultra-thin ideal: positive implicit associations with underweight fashion models are associated with drive for thinness in young women. 29 Jun 2008
• Do as I do: 7-month-old infants selectively reproduce others' goals. 29 Jun 2008
• Echopraxia in schizophrenia: possible mechanisms. 29 Jun 2008
• Social cognition: hi there! here's something interesting. 22 Jun 2008
• Changes in corticospinal excitability and the direction of evoked movements during motor preparation: a TMS study. 15 Jun 2008
• Expanding the theory of symptom modeling in patents with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures. 3 Jun 2008
• Gaze following. Jun 2008
• Impact of modeling on adolescent suicidal behavior. 30 May 2008
• Movie smoking exposure and smoking onset: a longitudinal study of mediation processes in a representative sample of U.S. adolescents. 30 May 2008
• Mirror neurons and mirror systems in monkeys and humans. 30 May 2008
• Stimulus-driven selection of routes to imitation. 26 May 2008
• Imitation, simulation, and schizophrenia. 19 May 2008
• Children's understanding of directed motion events in an imitation choice task. 17 May 2008

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Technical information about 'Imitative Behavior'

Definition: The mimicking of the behavior of one individual by another.

Descriptor UI: D007100

Alternative terms: Imitative Behavior; Behavior, Imitative; Behaviors, Imitative; Imitative Behaviors;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F01.145.510;

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: human & animal