The simulating social mind: The role of the mirror neuron system and simulation in the social and communicative deficits of autism spectrum disorders
Abstract
The mechanism by which humans perceive others differs greatly from how humans perceive inanimate objects. Unlike inanimate objects, humans have the distinct property of being "like me" in the eyes of the observer. This allows us to use the same systems that process knowledge about self-performed actions, self-conceived thoughts, and self-experienced emotions to understand actions, thoughts, and emotions in others. The authors propose that internal simulation mechanisms, such as the mirror neuron system, are necessary for normal development of recognition, imitation, theory of mind, empathy, and language. Additionally, the authors suggest that dysfunctional simulation mechanisms may underlie the social and communicative deficits seen in individuals with autism spectrum disorders.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
The present data may suggest reduced functional output of mirror neuron regions or decreased hemispheric cross-talk between mirror neuron regions, which may contribute to reduced attunement to others' intentions.
“Thus, the present data may suggest reduced functional output of mirror neuron regions or decreased hemispheric cross-talk between mirror neuron regions. In turn, reduced output or cross-talk of these regions may contribute to reduced attunement to others’ intentions (56).”
From A Meta-Analysis of the Corpus Callosum in Autism (2009) · cites this paper as [55]
Cites
James, W. (1891) · Henry Holt and Company eBooks · doi:10.1037/11059-000 · Cited by 25,799 · see citing works
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. B
Press, H. (1886) · Cited by 10,087 · see citing works
Lord, C., Rutter, M., & Le Couteur, A. (1994) · Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders · doi:10.1007/bf02172145 · Cited by 9,065 · see citing works
Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind?
Premack, D., & Woodruff, G. (1978) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · doi:10.1017/s0140525x00076512 · Cited by 8,743 · see citing works
Does the autistic child have a “theory of mind” ?
Baron-Cohen, S., Leslie, A. M., & Frith, U. (1985) · Cognition · doi:10.1016/0010-0277(85)90022-8 · Cited by 8,599 · cited 1× · see citing works
“In a series of studies conducted by Baron-Cohen, Leslie, and Frith (1985, 1986), typically developing children, children with Down's syndrome, and children with autism were given the " Sally-Anne " test.”
MethodBarsalou, L. W. (1999) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · doi:10.1017/s0140525x99002149 · Cited by 6,887 · see citing works
Action recognition in the premotor cortex
Gallese, V., Fadiga, L., Fogassi, L., & Rizzolatti, G. (1996) · Brain · doi:10.1093/brain/119.2.593 · Cited by 4,968 · see citing works
Empathy: its ultimate and proximate bases
Preston, S. D., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2002) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · doi:10.1017/s0140525x02000018 · Cited by 4,126 · see citing works
Empathy for Pain Involves the Affective but not Sensory Components of Pain
Singer, T., Seymour, B., O'Doherty, J., Kaube, H., Dolan, R. J., & Frith, C. D. (2004) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1093535 · Cited by 3,929 · see citing works
The chameleon effect: the perception–behavior link and social interaction
Chartrand, T. L., & Bargh, J. A. (1999) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · doi:10.1037/0022-3514.76.6.893 · Cited by 3,674 · see citing works
Understanding motor events: a neurophysiological study
di Pellegrino, G., Fadiga, L., Fogassi, L., Gallese, V., & Rizzolatti, G. (1992) · Experimental Brain Research · doi:10.1007/bf00230027 · Cited by 3,539 · see citing works
Mirror neurons and the simulation theory of mind-reading
Gallese, V (1998) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · doi:10.1016/s1364-6613(98)01262-5 · Cited by 3,201 · see citing works
The motor theory of speech perception revised
Liberman, A. M., & Mattingly, I. G. (1985) · Cognition · doi:10.1016/0010-0277(85)90021-6 · Cited by 2,865 · see citing works
Rizzolatti, G., & Arbib, M. A. (1998) · Trends in Neurosciences · doi:10.1016/s0166-2236(98)01260-0 · Cited by 2,858 · see citing works
Cortical mechanisms of human imitation
Iacoboni, M., Woods, R. P., Brass, M., Bekkering, H., Mazziotta, J. C., & Rizzolatti, G. (1999) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.286.5449.2526 · Cited by 2,683 · see citing works
Action observation activates premotor and parietal areas in a somatotopic manner: an fMRI study
Buccino, G., Binkofski, F., Fink, G. R., Fadiga, L., Fogassi, L., Gallese, V., Seitz, R. J., Zilles, K., Rizzolatti, G., & Freund, H. (2001) · European Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1046/j.1460-9568.2001.01385.x · Cited by 2,471 · see citing works
Social perception from visual cues: Role of the STS region
Allison, T., Puce, A., & McCarthy, G. (2000) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · doi:10.1016/s1364-6613(00)01501-1 · Cited by 2,461 · see citing works
Glenberg, A. M., & Kaschak, M. P. (2002) · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review · doi:10.3758/bf03196313 · Cited by 2,361 · see citing works
Adolphs, R., Tranel, D., Damasio, H., & Damasio, A. (1994) · Nature · doi:10.1038/372669a0 · Cited by 2,360 · see citing works
The cerebellum and neural control
Ito, M. (1984) · Cited by 2,314 · see citing works
Motor facilitation during action observation: a magnetic stimulation study
Fadiga, L., Fogassi, L., Pavesi, G., & Rizzolatti, G. (1995) · Journal of Neurophysiology · doi:10.1152/jn.1995.73.6.2608 · Cited by 2,297 · see citing works
Somatotopic Representation of Action Words in Human Motor and Premotor Cortex
Hauk, O., Johnsrude, I. S., & Friedemann Pulvermüller, A. (2004) · Neuron · doi:10.1016/s0896-6273(03)00838-9 · Cited by 2,196 · see citing works
Both of Us Disgusted in My Insula
Wicker, B., Keysers, C., Plailly, J., Royet, J.-P., Gallese, V., & Rizzolatti, G. (2003) · Neuron · doi:10.1016/s0896-6273(03)00679-2 · Cited by 2,185 · see citing works
Grasping the intentions of others with one's own mirror neuron system
Iacoboni, M., Molnar-Szakacs, I., Gallese, V., Buccino, G., Mazziotta, J. C., & Rizzolatti, G. (2005) · PLoS Biology · doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0030079 · Cited by 2,044 · cited 3× · see citing works
“In a recently published study, Iacoboni et al. (2005) showed participants videos of four different types of actions.”
BackgroundResultA cortical area selective for visual processing of the human body
Downing, P. E., Jiang, Y., Shuman, M., & Kanwisher, N. (2001) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1063414 · Cited by 2,043 · see citing works
Lord, C., Rutter, M., Goode, S., Heemsbergen, J., Jordan, H., Mawhood, L., & Schopler, E. (1989) · Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders · doi:10.1007/bf02211841 · Cited by 2,030 · see citing works
Action Observation and Acquired Motor Skills: An fMRI Study with Expert Dancers
Calvo‐Merino, B., Glaser, D. E., Grèzes, J., Passingham, R. E., & Haggard, P. (2004) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhi007 · Cited by 1,991 · see citing works
Neural mechanisms of empathy in humans: a relay from neural systems for imitation to limbic areas
Carr, L., Iacoboni, M., Dubeau, M.-C., Mazziotta, J. C., & Lenzi, G. L. (2003) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0935845100 · Cited by 1,978 · see citing works
Unconscious facial reactions to emotional facial expressions
Dimberg, U., Thunberg, M., & Elmehed, K. (2000) · Psychological Science · doi:10.1111/1467-9280.00221 · Cited by 1,788 · see citing works
Executive function deficits in high-functioning autistic individuals: Relationship to theory of mind
Ozonoff, S., Pennington, B. F., & Rogers, S. J. (1991) · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry · doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.1991.tb00351.x · Cited by 1,766 · see citing works
Dapretto, M., Davies, M. S., Pfeifer, J. H., Scott, A. A., Sigman, M., Bookheimer, S. Y., & Iacoboni, M. (2006) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nn1611 · Cited by 1,694 · see citing works
Understanding other minds: perspectives from autism
(1994) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.31-3492 · Cited by 1,651 · see citing works
Infant Intersubjectivity: Research, Theory, and Clinical Applications
Trevarthen, C., & Aitken, K. J. (2001) · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry · doi:10.1111/1469-7610.00701 · Cited by 1,606 · see citing works
Finding the self? An event-related fMRI study
Kelley, W. M., Macrae, C. N., Wyland, C. L., Caglar, S., Inati, S., & Heatherton, T. F. (2002) · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1162/08989290260138672 · Cited by 1,606 · cited 2× · see citing works
“…both when subjects are asked to make judgments regarding their own abilities, personality traits, and attitudes (S. C. Johnson et al., 2002; Kelley et al., 2002) and when they are asked to attribute intentions to characters in a comic strip (Brunet, Sarfati, Hardy-Bayle, & Decety, 2000) or…”
BackgroundEchoes of echoes? An episodic theory of lexical access.
Goldinger, S. D. (1998) · Psychological Review · doi:10.1037/0033-295x.105.2.251 · Cited by 1,587 · see citing works
The amygdala: Neurobiological aspects of emotion, memory, and mental dysfunction.
Aggleton, J. P. (1992) · Wiley-Liss eBooks · Cited by 1,536 · see citing works
Other minds in the brain: a functional imaging study of “theory of mind” in story comprehension.
Fletcher, P. (1995) · Cognition · doi:10.1016/0010-0277(95)00692-r · Cited by 1,522 · see citing works
Jackson, F. (1986) · The Journal of Philosophy · doi:10.2307/2026143 · Cited by 1,424 · see citing works
The Extreme Male-Brain Theory of Autism
Baron‐Cohen, S. (1999) · The MIT Press eBooks · doi:10.7551/mitpress/4945.003.0023 · Cited by 1,413 · see citing works
Grasping objects: the cortical mechanisms of visuomotor transformation
Jeannerod, M., Arbib, M. A., Rizzolatti, G., & Sakata, H. (1995) · Trends in Neurosciences · doi:10.1016/0166-2236(95)93921-j · Cited by 1,399 · see citing works
Gallagher, H. L., Happé, F., Brunswick, N., Fletcher, P. C., Frith, U., & Frith, C. D. (2000) · Neuropsychologia · doi:10.1016/s0028-3932(99)00053-6 · Cited by 1,394 · see citing works
The emulation theory of representation: Motor control, imagery, and perception
Grush, R. (2004) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · doi:10.1017/s0140525x04000093 · Cited by 1,387 · cited 4× · see citing works
“An emulator is defined as " a device that mimics the input/output operation of a target system " (such as the motor system; Grush, 2004, p. 387).”
InfluentialCastelli, F. (2002) · Brain · doi:10.1093/brain/awf189 · Cited by 1,377 · see citing works
Gordon, R. M. (1986) · Mind & Language · doi:10.1111/j.1468-0017.1986.tb00324.x · Cited by 1,373 · see citing works
The Social Function of Intellect
Humphrey, N. K. (1976) · CogPrints (University of Southampton) · Cited by 1,351 · see citing works
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
Darwin, C. D. (2013) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9781139833813 · Cited by 1,351 · see citing works
Castelli, F., Happe, F. G. E., Uta Frith, A., & Frith, C. (2000) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1006/nimg.2000.0612 · Cited by 1,299 · see citing works
The roots of empathy: the shared manifold hypothesis and the neural basis of intersubjectivity
Gallese, V. (2003) · Psychopathology · doi:10.1159/000072786 · Cited by 1,249 · see citing works
Listening to Action-related Sentences Activates Fronto-parietal Motor Circuits
Tettamanti, M., Buccino, G., Saccuman, M. C., Gallese, V., Danna, M., Scifo, P., Fazio, F., Rizzolatti, G., Cappa, S. F., & Perani, D. (2005) · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1162/0898929053124965 · Cited by 1,239 · see citing works
Hoffman, E. A., & Haxby, J. V. (2000) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/71152 · Cited by 1,218 · see citing works
Effect of subjective perspective taking during simulation of action: a PET investigation of agency
Ruby, P., & Decety, J. (2001) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/87510 · Cited by 1,182 · see citing works
Arbib, M. A. (2005) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · doi:10.1017/s0140525x05000038 · Cited by 1,164 · see citing works
Communicative competence and theory of mind in autism: A test of relevance theory
Happe, F. G. E. (1993) · Cognition · doi:10.1016/0010-0277(93)90026-r · Cited by 1,161 · see citing works
EEG evidence for mirror neuron dysfunction in autism spectrum disorders
Oberman, L. M., Hubbard, E. M., McCleery, J. P., Altschuler, E. L., Ramachandran, V. S., & Pineda, J. A. (2005) · Cognitive Brain Research · doi:10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.01.014 · Cited by 1,146 · cited 5× · see citing works
“Our group has provided preliminary evidence for this theory on the basis of both a case study (Altschuler et al., 2000) and a follow-up study including 10 individuals with ASD (Oberman et al., 2005).”
BackgroundInfluentialSelf-citationGopnik, A., & Meltzoff, A. N. (1997) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.34-6547 · Cited by 1,134 · see citing works
Baron-Cohen, S., Ring, H. A., Bullmore, E. T., Wheelwright, S., Ashwin, C., & Williams, S. C. R. (2000) · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · doi:10.1016/s0149-7634(00)00011-7 · Cited by 1,130 · see citing works
The organization of the cortical motor system: new concepts
Rizzolatti, G., Luppino, G., & Matelli, M. (1998) · Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology · doi:10.1016/s0013-4694(98)00022-4 · Cited by 1,127 · see citing works
Bateson, P., & Hinde, R. A. (1976) · Medical Entomology and Zoology · Cited by 1,119 · see citing works
Adolphs, R., Damasio, H., Tranel, D., Cooper, G., & Damasio, A. R. (2000) · The Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.20-07-02683.2000 · Cited by 1,095 · cited 2× · see citing works
“This potential limitation was not a factor for Adolphs et al. (2000), however, who addressed the question of the necessity of sensorimotor cortices for recognition of emotions in visually presented facial expressions in 108 focal brain lesion patients and 30 healthy control participants.”
BackgroundTemporal Cortex Activation in Humans Viewing Eye and Mouth Movements
Puce, A., Allison, T., Bentin, S., Gore, J. C., & McCarthy, G. (1998) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.18-06-02188.1998 · Cited by 1,070 · see citing works
Social Intelligence in the Normal and Autistic Brain: An fMRI Study
Baron‐Cohen, S., RING, H. A., Wheelwright, S. J., Bullmore, E. T., Brammer, M. J., Simmons, A., & Williams, S. (2002) · The MIT Press eBooks · doi:10.7551/mitpress/3077.003.0028 · Cited by 1,044 · see citing works
Schultz, R. T., Gauthier, I., Klin, A., Fulbright, R. K., Anderson, A. W., Volkmar, F., Skudlarski, P., Lacadie, C., Cohen, D. J., & Gore, J. C. (2000) · Archives of General Psychiatry · doi:10.1001/archpsyc.57.4.331 · Cited by 1,000 · see citing works
Mind reading: Neural mechanisms of theory of mind and self-perspective
Vogeley, K., Bussfeld, P., Newen, A., Herrmann, S., Happé, F., Falkai, P., Maier, W., Shah, N. J., Fink, G. R., & Zilles, K. (2001) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1006/nimg.2001.0789 · Cited by 998 · see citing works
Responses to the negative emotions of others by autistic, mentally retarded, and normal children.
Sigman, M. D., Kasari, C., Kwon, J., & Yirmiya, N. (1992) · Child Development · doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1992.tb01662.x · Cited by 980 · see citing works
Situated simulation in the human conceptual system
Barsalou, L. (2003) · Language and Cognitive Processes · doi:10.1080/01690960344000026 · Cited by 979 · see citing works
Activation of human primary motor cortex during action observation: A neuromagnetic study
Hari, R., Forss, N., Avikainen, S., Kirveskari, E., Salenius, S., & Rizzolatti, G. (1998) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.95.25.15061 · Cited by 957 · see citing works
Imitation, mirror neurons and autism
Williams, J. H. G., Whiten, A., Suddendorf, T., & Perrett, D. I. (2001) · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · doi:10.1016/s0149-7634(01)00014-8 · Cited by 946 · see citing works
Brain activity during observation of actions. Influence of action content and subject's strategy
Decety, J. (1997) · Brain · doi:10.1093/brain/120.10.1763 · Cited by 942 · see citing works
Visual cells in the temporal cortex sensitive to face view and gaze direction
Perrett, D. I., Smith, P., Potter, D. D., Mistlin, A. J., Head, A., Milner, A. D., & Jeeves, M. A. (1985) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.1985.0003 · Cited by 932 · see citing works
Neural correlates of self-reflection
Johnson, S. C. (2002) · Brain · doi:10.1093/brain/awf181 · Cited by 930 · see citing works
Brain Areas Involved in Perception of Biological Motion
Grossman, E. D., Donnelly, M. P. W., Price, R. R., Pickens, D. R., Morgan, V. L., Neighbor, G., & Blake, R. (2000) · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1162/089892900562417 · Cited by 917 · see citing works
Uta Frith, A., & Mira, M. P. (1992) · Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities · doi:10.1177/108835769200700302 · Cited by 889 · see citing works
Listening to speech activates motor areas involved in speech production
Wilson, S. M., Saygin, A. P., Sereno, M. I., & Iacoboni, M. (2004) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nn1263 · Cited by 885 · see citing works
Baron-Cohen, S., Richler, J., Bisarya, D., Gurunathan, N., & Wheelwright, S. (2003) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2002.1206 · Cited by 870 · see citing works
Speech listening specifically modulates the excitability of tongue muscles: a TMS study
Fadiga, L., Craighero, L., Buccino, G., & Rizzolatti, G. (2002) · European Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1046/j.0953-816x.2001.01874.x · Cited by 855 · see citing works
Ochsner, K. N., Knierim, K., Ludlow, D. H., Hanelin, J., Ramachandran, T., Glover, G., & Mackey, S. C. (2004) · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1162/0898929042947829 · Cited by 850 · see citing works
Facial Reactions to Facial Expressions
Dimberg, U. (1982) · Psychophysiology · doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.1982.tb02516.x · Cited by 844 · see citing works
The functional neuroanatomy of social behaviour
Critchley, H. D., Daly, E. M., Bullmore, E. T., Williams, S. C. R., Van Amelsvoort, T., Robertson, D. M., Rowe, A., Phillips, M., McAlonan, G., Howlin, P., et al. (2000) · Brain · doi:10.1093/brain/123.11.2203 · Cited by 816 · see citing works
"Mood contagion": The automatic transfer of mood between persons.
Neumann, R., & Strack, F. (2000) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · doi:10.1037//0022-3514.79.2.211 · Cited by 808 · see citing works
The Link between Social Cognition and Self-referential Thought in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex
Mitchell, J. P., Banaji, M. R., & Macrae, C. N. (2005) · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1162/0898929055002418 · Cited by 806 · see citing works
Mechanical, behavioural and Intentional understanding of picture stories in autistic children
Baron‐Cohen, S., Leslie, A. M., & Frith, U. (1986) · British Journal of Developmental Psychology · doi:10.1111/j.2044-835x.1986.tb01003.x · Cited by 806 · see citing works
Intersubjective communication and emotion in early ontogeny
Bråten, S. (1998) · Cited by 788 · see citing works
A theoretical approach to the deficits in infantile autism
Rogers, S. J., & Pennington, B. F. (1991) · Development and Psychopathology · doi:10.1017/s0954579400000043 · Cited by 784 · see citing works
Neural Circuits Involved in the Recognition of Actions Performed by Nonconspecifics: An fMRI Study
Buccino, G., Lui, F., Canessa, N., Patteri, I., Lagravinese, G., Benuzzi, F., Porro, C. A., & Rizzolatti, G. (2004) · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1162/089892904322755601 · Cited by 762 · see citing works
Exploration of the autistic child’s theory of mind: Knowledge, belief, and communication
Perner, J., Frith, U., Leslie, A. M., & Leekam, S. R. (1989) · Child Development · doi:10.2307/1130734 · Cited by 757 · see citing works
Recognition of facial emotion in nine individuals with bilateral amygdala damage
Adolphs, R., Tranel, D., Hamann, S. B., Young, A. W., Calder, A. J., Phelps, E. A., Anderson, A. K., Lee, G. P., & Damásio, A. R. (1999) · Neuropsychologia · doi:10.1016/s0028-3932(99)00039-1 · Cited by 751 · see citing works
Bonda, E., Petrides, M., Ostry, D. J., & Evans, A. (1996) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.16-11-03737.1996 · Cited by 736 · see citing works
On the Nature and Evolution of Imitation in the Animal Kingdom: Reappraisal of a Century of Research
Whiten, A., & Ham, R. (1992) · Advances in the study of behavior · doi:10.1016/s0065-3454(08)60146-1 · Cited by 731 · see citing works
Carruthers, P., & Smith, P. K. (1996) · Cited by 718 · see citing works
Buccino, G., Riggio, L., Melli, G., Binkofski, F., Gallese, V., & Rizzolatti, G. (2005) · Cognitive Brain Research · doi:10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.02.020 · Cited by 717 · see citing works
Activations related to “mirror” and “canonical” neurones in the human brain: an fMRI study
Grèzes, J., Armony, J. L., Rowe, J. B., & Passingham, R. E. (2003) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/s1053-8119(03)00042-9 · Cited by 683 · see citing works
Perspectives and problems in motor learning
Wolpert, D. M., Zoubin Ghahramani, A., & Flanagan, J. R. (2001) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · doi:10.1016/s1364-6613(00)01773-3 · Cited by 671 · see citing works
Parietal cortex neurons of the monkey related to the visual guidance of hand movement
Taira, M., Mine, S., Georgopoulos, A. P., Murata, A., & Sakata, H. (1990) · Experimental Brain Research · doi:10.1007/bf00232190 · Cited by 655 · see citing works
Do imagined and executed actions share the same neural substrate?
Decety, J. (1996) · Cognitive Brain Research · doi:10.1016/0926-6410(95)00033-x · Cited by 643 · see citing works
Mind Blindness and the Brain in Autism
Frith, U. (2001) · Neuron · doi:10.1016/s0896-6273(01)00552-9 · Cited by 637 · see citing works
Guttenplan, S. (1975) · Cited by 632 · see citing works
A PET Investigation of the Attribution of Intentions with a Nonverbal Task
Brunet-Gouet, É., Sarfati, Y., Hardy-Baylé, M. C., & Jean Decety, A. (2000) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1006/nimg.1999.0525 · Cited by 631 · see citing works
Extrastriate body area in human occipital cortex responds to the performance of motor actions
Astafiev, S. V., Stanley, C. M., Shulman, G. L., & Corbetta, M. (2004) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nn1241 · Cited by 629 · see citing works
Transcranial magnetic stimulation highlights the sensorimotor side of empathy for pain.
Avenanti, A., Bueti, D., Galati, G., & Aglioti, S. M. (2005) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nn1481 · Cited by 615 · see citing works
Seeing and hearing speech excites the motor system involved in speech production
Watkins, K. E., Strafella, A. P., & Paus, T. (2003) · Neuropsychologia · doi:10.1016/s0028-3932(02)00316-0 · Cited by 600 · see citing works
Imitation in Animals and Artifacts
Dautenhahn, K., & Nehaniv, C. (2002) · The MIT Press eBooks · doi:10.7551/mitpress/3676.001.0001 · Cited by 586 · see citing works
‘Theory of mind’ in the brain. Evidence from a PET scan study of Asperger syndrome
Happe, F. G. E., Ehlers, S., Fletcher, P. C., Uta Frith, A., Johansson, M., Gillberg, C., Dolan, R. J., Frackowiak, R. S. J., & Frith, C. (1996) · Neuroreport · doi:10.1097/00001756-199612200-00040 · Cited by 577 · see citing works
A Systematic Review of Action Imitation in Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Williams, J. H. G., Whiten, A., & Singh, T. (2004) · Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders · doi:10.1023/b:jadd.0000029551.56735.3a · Cited by 573 · see citing works
The ‘windows task’ as a measure of strategic deception in preschoolers and autistic subjects
Russell, J. A., Mauthner, N. S., Sharpe, S., & Tidswell, T. (1991) · British Journal of Developmental Psychology · doi:10.1111/j.2044-835x.1991.tb00881.x · Cited by 547 · see citing works
Précis of Relevance: Communication and Cognition
Sperber, D., & Wilson, D. (1987) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · doi:10.1017/s0140525x00055345 · Cited by 546 · see citing works
Common Mechanisms in Perception and Action: Attention and Performance XIX
Danckert, J. A. (2002) · Neuropsychologia · doi:10.1016/s0028-3932(02)00077-5 · Cited by 542 · see citing works
McAlonan, G. M. (2004) · Brain · doi:10.1093/brain/awh332 · Cited by 491 · see citing works
Vicarious responses to pain in anterior cingulate cortex: Is empathy a multisensory issue?
Morrison, I., Lloyd, D., Di Pellegrino, G., & Roberts, N. (2004) · Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience · doi:10.3758/cabn.4.2.270 · Cited by 490 · see citing works
Goel, V., Grafman, J., Sadato, N., & Hallett, M. (1995) · NeuroReport · doi:10.1097/00001756-199509000-00009 · Cited by 487 · see citing works
Cochin, S., Barthélémy, C., Roux, S., & Martineau, J. (1999) · European Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00598.x · Cited by 486 · see citing works
D, V. G. M. (2006) · Brain Research · doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2006.01.054 · Cited by 484 · see citing works
Autism as an executive disorder
Russell, J. A. (1997) · Cited by 483 · see citing works
Gesture, Speech, and Lexical Access: The Role of Lexical Movements in Speech Production
Rauscher, F. H., Krauss, R. M., & Chen, Y. (1996) · Psychological Science · doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.1996.tb00364.x · Cited by 482 · see citing works
Movement coordination in social interaction: Some examples described
Kendon, A. (1970) · Acta Psychologica · doi:10.1016/0001-6918(70)90094-6 · Cited by 470 · see citing works
McIntosh, D. N., Reichmann‐Decker, A., Winkielman, P., & Wilbarger, J. L. (2006) · Developmental Science · doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2006.00492.x · Cited by 467 · see citing works
Reafferent copies of imitated actions in the right superior temporal cortex
Iacoboni, M., Koski, L. M., Braß, M., Harold Bekkering, A., Woods, R. P., Dubeau, M.-C., Mazziotta, J. C., & Rizzolatti, G. (2001) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.241474598 · Cited by 464 · see citing works
Neural basis of eye gaze processing deficits in autism
Pelphrey, K. A., Morris, J. P., & McCarthy, G. (2005) · Brain · doi:10.1093/brain/awh404 · Cited by 446 · see citing works
Niedenthal, P. M., Brauer, M., Halberstadt, J. B., & Innes-Ker, Å. H. (2001) · Cognition & Emotion · doi:10.1080/02699930143000194 · Cited by 426 · see citing works
The Emanuel Miller Memorial Lecture 1991
Gillberg, C. (1992) · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry · doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.1992.tb01959.x · Cited by 409 · see citing works
Motor activation prior to observation of a predicted movement
Kilner, J. M., Vargas, C., Duval, S., Blakemore, S.-J., & Sirigu, A. (2004) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nn1355 · Cited by 406 · see citing works
Medicinische Psychologie, oder, Physiologie der Seele
Lotze, H. (2006) · Cited by 405 · see citing works
Brainstem, cerebellar and limbic neuroanatomical abnormalities in autism
Courchesne, E. (1997) · Current Opinion in Neurobiology · doi:10.1016/s0959-4388(97)80016-5 · Cited by 401 · see citing works
Winner, E., Brownell, H., Happe, F. G. E., Blum, A., & Pincus, D. B. (1998) · Brain and Language · doi:10.1006/brln.1997.1889 · Cited by 389 · see citing works
Condon, W. S., & Ogston, W. D. (1967) · Journal of Psychiatric Research · doi:10.1016/0022-3956(67)90004-0 · Cited by 383 · see citing works
The child's path to spoken language
LOCKE, J. L. (1993) · Cited by 379 · see citing works
Cognitive and language skills in autistic, mentally retarded, and normal children.
Sigman, M., & Ungerer, J. A. (1984) · Developmental Psychology · doi:10.1037/0012-1649.20.2.293 · Cited by 379 · see citing works
Neurophysiological distinction of action words in the fronto‐central cortex
Hauk, O., & Pulvermüller, F. (2004) · Human Brain Mapping · doi:10.1002/hbm.10157 · Cited by 374 · see citing works
Green, D., Baird, G., Barnett, A. L., Henderson, L., Huber, J., & HENDERSON, S. E. (2002) · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry · doi:10.1111/1469-7610.00054 · Cited by 365 · see citing works
TOP DOWN EFFECT OF STRATEGY ON THE PERCEPTION OF HUMAN BIOLOGICAL MOTION: A PET INVESTIGATION
Grèzes, J. (1998) · Cognitive Neuropsychology · doi:10.1080/026432998381023 · Cited by 359 · see citing works
The earliest sense of self and others: Merleau‐Ponty and recent developmental studies
Gallagher, S., & Meltzoff, A. N. (1996) · Philosophical Psychology · doi:10.1080/09515089608573181 · Cited by 337 · see citing works
Stein, E. (1964) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-94-017-5546-7 · Cited by 336 · see citing works
Insights into Theory of Mind from Deafness and Autism
Peterson, C. C., & Siegal, M. (2000) · Mind & Language · doi:10.1111/1468-0017.00126 · Cited by 333 · see citing works
Reading Speech from Still and Moving Faces: The Neural Substrates of Visible Speech
Calvert, G. A., & Campbell, R. (2003) · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1162/089892903321107828 · Cited by 332 · see citing works
Seltzer, B., & Pandya, D. Ν. (1994) · The Journal of Comparative Neurology · doi:10.1002/cne.903430308 · Cited by 327 · see citing works
Sensorimotor functioning and communication in mute autistic children
Curcio, F. (1978) · Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders · doi:10.1007/bf01539631 · Cited by 313 · see citing works
Villalobos, M. E., Mizuno, A., Dahl, B. C., Kemmotsu, N., & Müller, R.-A. (2005) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.12.022 · Cited by 312 · see citing works
Against simulation: the argument from error
Saxe, R. R. (2005) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.tics.2005.01.012 · Cited by 311 · see citing works
Connecting mirror neurons and forward models
Miall, R. C. (2003) · Neuroreport · doi:10.1097/00001756-200312020-00001 · Cited by 302 · see citing works
Autonomic responses of autistic children to people and objects
Hirstein, W., Iversen, P., & Ramachandran, V. S. (2001) · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2001.1724 · Cited by 297 · see citing works
Self-citationImpaired motor facilitation during action observation in individuals with autism spectrum disorder
Théoret, H., Halligan, E., Kobayashi, M., Fregni, F., Tager-Flusberg, H. B., & Pascual‐Leone, Á. (2005) · Current Biology · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2005.01.022 · Cited by 295 · see citing works
Distinguishing irony from deception: Understanding the speaker's second‐order intention
Winner, E., & Leekam, S. R. (1991) · British Journal of Developmental Psychology · doi:10.1111/j.2044-835x.1991.tb00875.x · Cited by 293 · see citing works
Abnormal imitation‐related cortical activation sequences in Asperger's syndrome
Nishitani, N., Avikainen, S., & Hari, R. (2004) · Annals of Neurology · doi:10.1002/ana.20031 · Cited by 291 · see citing works
EEG changes during cinematographic presentation (Moving picture activation of the EEG)
Gastaut, H., & Bert, J. (1954) · Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology · doi:10.1016/0013-4694(54)90058-9 · Cited by 276 · see citing works
Executive functioning in high-functioning children with autism
Liss, M., Fein, D., Allen, D., Dunn, M., Feinstein, C., Morris, R., Waterhouse, L., & Rapin, I. (2001) · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry · doi:10.1111/1469-7610.00717 · Cited by 273 · see citing works
Perception of motion and qEEG activity in human adults
Cochin, S., Barthélémy, C., Lejeune, B., Roux, S., & Martineau, J. (1998) · Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology · doi:10.1016/s0013-4694(98)00071-6 · Cited by 263 · see citing works
Babiloni, C., Babiloni, F., Carducci, F., Cincotti, F., Cocozza, G., Percio, C. D., Moretti, D. V., & Rossini, P. M. (2002) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1006/nimg.2002.1192 · Cited by 253 · see citing works
Imitation and Pantomime in High-Functioning Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Rogers, S. J., Bennetto, L., McEvoy, R. E., & Pennington, B. F. (1996) · Child Development · doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1996.tb01843.x · Cited by 250 · see citing works
Changes in rolandic mu rhythm during observation of a precision grip
Muthukumaraswamy, S. D., & Johnson, B. W. (2003) · Psychophysiology · doi:10.1046/j.1469-8986.2003.00129.x · Cited by 247 · see citing works
I, you, me, and autism: An experimental study
Lee, A., Hobson, R. P., & Chiat, S. (1994) · Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders · doi:10.1007/bf02172094 · Cited by 245 · see citing works
New aspects of motion perception
Stevens, J. A., Fonlupt, P., Shiffrar, M., & Jean Decety, A. (2000) · Neuroreport · doi:10.1097/00001756-200001170-00022 · Cited by 243 · see citing works
Psychophysiological responsiveness to the distress ofothers in children with autism
Blair, J. (1999) · Personality and Individual Differences · doi:10.1016/s0191-8869(98)00154-8 · Cited by 237 · see citing works
The psychological reality of the body schema: A test with normal participants.
Reed, C. L., & Farah, M. J. (1995) · Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance · doi:10.1037//0096-1523.21.2.334 · Cited by 236 · see citing works
Primary motor cortex activation during action observation revealed by wavelet analysis of the EEG
Muthukumaraswamy, S. D., & Johnson, B. W. (2004) · Clinical Neurophysiology · doi:10.1016/j.clinph.2004.03.004 · Cited by 230 · see citing works
Motor imitation abilities and neurological signs in autistic children
Jones, V., & Prior, M. R. (1985) · Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders · doi:10.1007/bf01837897 · Cited by 222 · see citing works
Sprengelmeyer, R., Young, A. W., Schröeder, U., Grossenbacher, P. G., Federlein, J., Buttner, T., & Przuntek, H. (1999) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.1999.0945 · Cited by 220 · see citing works
Bauman, M. L. (2006) · Johns Hopkins University Press eBooks · doi:10.1353/book.3225 · Cited by 215 · see citing works
What language reveals about the understanding of minds in children with autism
Tager-Flusberg, H. B. (1993) · Medical Entomology and Zoology · Cited by 211 · see citing works
The Responses of Autistic Children to the Distress of Others
Bacon, A. L., FEIN, D. A., Morris, R., Waterhouse, L. H., & ALLEN, D. A. (1998) · Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders · doi:10.1023/a:1026040615628 · Cited by 208 · see citing works
Pineda, J. A., Allison, B. Z., & Vankov, A. (2000) · IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering · doi:10.1109/86.847822 · Cited by 208 · see citing works
Emotional Empathy as Related to Mimicry Reactions at Different Levels of Information Processing
Sonnby‐Borgström, M., Jönsson, P., & Svensson, O. (2003) · Journal of Nonverbal Behavior · doi:10.1023/a:1023608506243 · Cited by 200 · see citing works
Modulated Activation of the Human SI and SII Cortices during Observation of Hand Actions
Avikainen, S., Forss, N., & Hari, R. (2002) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1006/nimg.2001.1029 · Cited by 190 · see citing works
Heal, J. (2003) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511615894.004 · Cited by 187 · see citing works
Selective disruption of the recognition of facial expressions of anger
Lawrence, A. D., Calder, A. J., McGowan, S., & Grasby, P. M. (2002) · Neuroreport · doi:10.1097/00001756-200205070-00029 · Cited by 183 · see citing works
Neologisms and idiosyncratic language in autistic speakers
Volden, J., & Lord, C. (1991) · Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders · doi:10.1007/bf02284755 · Cited by 182 · see citing works
Ohta, M. (1987) · Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders · doi:10.1007/bf01487259 · Cited by 182 · see citing works
Understanding the language and communicative impairments in autism
Tager-Flusberg, H. B. (2000) · International review of research in mental retardation · doi:10.1016/s0074-7750(00)80011-7 · Cited by 179 · see citing works
The Self In Infancy - Theory and Research
(1995) · Advances in psychology · doi:10.1016/s0166-4115(05)x8001-3 · Cited by 170 · see citing works
Theodor, L. (1907) · Cited by 163 · see citing works
The effects of facial control and facial mimicry on subjective reactions to comedy routines
Bush, L. K., Barr, C. L., McHugo, G. J., & Lanzetta, J. T. (1989) · Motivation and Emotion · doi:10.1007/bf00995543 · Cited by 160 · see citing works
Speech perception is hearing sounds, not tongues
Ohala, J. J. (1996) · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · doi:10.1121/1.414696 · Cited by 149 · see citing works
Precursors of symbol formation and childhood autism
Hammes, J. G. W., & Langdell, T. (1981) · Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders · doi:10.1007/bf01531515 · Cited by 146 · see citing works
Electrical Activity of the Brain
Jasper, H. H. (1941) · Annual Review of Physiology · doi:10.1146/annurev.ph.03.030141.002113 · Cited by 142 · see citing works
How executive disorders can bring about an inadequate ‘theory of mind’
Russell, J. A. (2015) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/med:psych/9780198523499.003.0008 · Cited by 141 · see citing works
"Do Monkeys Ape?"—Ten Years After
Visalberghi, E. M., & Fragaszy, D. M. (2002) · The MIT Press eBooks · doi:10.7551/mitpress/3676.003.0019 · Cited by 134 · see citing works
The 'shared manifold' hypothesis.
D, V. G. M. (2001) · Journal of Consciousness Studies · Cited by 132 · see citing works
Wallbott, H. G. (1991) · British Journal of Social Psychology · doi:10.1111/j.2044-8309.1991.tb00939.x · Cited by 131 · see citing works
Theory of mind and executive function: is there a developmental relationship?
Perner, J., & Lang, B. (1999) · doi:10.1093/oso/9780198524465.003.0007 · Cited by 129 · see citing works
Corona, R., Dissanayake, C., Arbelle, S., Wellington, P., & Sigman, M. (1998) · Child Development · doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1998.tb06172.x · Cited by 118 · see citing works
Preverbal children with autism understand the intentions of others
Aldridge, M. A., Stone, K. R., Sweeney, M. H., & Bower, T. G. R. (2000) · Developmental Science · doi:10.1111/1467-7687.00123 · Cited by 114 · see citing works
George, A., & Butterfield, J. (1988) · The Philosophical Quarterly · doi:10.2307/2220274 · Cited by 110 · see citing works
Motor activation from visible speech: Evidence from stimulus response compatibility.
Kerzel, D., & Harold Bekkering, A. (2000) · Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance · doi:10.1037//0096-1523.26.2.634 · Cited by 106 · see citing works
Denial of disabilities in anosognosia
Ramachandran, V. S., & Rogers-Ramachandran, D. (1996) · Nature · doi:10.1038/382501a0 · Cited by 103 · see citing works
Self-citationIndividual differences in the effects of spontaneous mimicry on emotional contagion
Laird, J. D., Alibozak, T., Davainis, D., Deignan, K., Fontanella, K., Hong, J. S., Levy, B. L. M., & Pacheco, C. (1994) · Motivation and Emotion · doi:10.1007/bf02254830 · Cited by 96 · see citing works
On the existence of different alpha band rhythms in the hand area of man
Andrew, C. M., & Pfurtscheller, G. (1997) · Neuroscience Letters · doi:10.1016/s0304-3940(97)13358-4 · Cited by 94 · see citing works
Changes in breathing during observation of effortful actions
Paccalin, C., & Jeannerod, M. (2000) · Brain Research · doi:10.1016/s0006-8993(00)02145-4 · Cited by 84 · see citing works
FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION BY PEOPLE WITH MÖBIUS SYNDROME
Calder, A. J., Keane, J., Cole, J., Campbell, R., & Young, A. W. (2000) · Cognitive Neuropsychology · doi:10.1080/026432900380490 · Cited by 81 · see citing works
Immediate imitation and joint attention in young children with autism
Roeyers, H., Oost, P. V., & BOTHUYNE, S. (1998) · Development and Psychopathology · doi:10.1017/s0954579498001680 · Cited by 78 · see citing works
The functions of immediate echolalia in autistic children: A developmental perspective
McEvoy, R. E., Loveland, K. A., & Landry, S. H. (1988) · Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders · doi:10.1007/bf02211883 · Cited by 67 · see citing works
A Theory of the Role of Imitation in the Emergence of Self
Meltzoff, A. N., & Moore, M. (1995) · Advances in psychology · doi:10.1016/s0166-4115(05)80007-x · Cited by 61 · see citing works
Ritvo, S., & PROVENCE, S. A. (1953) · The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child · doi:10.1080/00797308.1953.11822766 · Cited by 60 · see citing works
Understanding photos, models, and beliefs: A test of the modularity thesis of theory of mind
Charman, T., & Baron‐Cohen, S. (1995) · Cognitive Development · doi:10.1016/0885-2014(95)90013-6 · Cited by 58 · see citing works
Goldman, A. I., & ProtoSociology Project (2002) · ProtoSociology · doi:10.5840/protosociology20021619 · Cited by 40 · see citing works
Baron‐Cohen, S., Richler, Bisarya, & Wheelwright, G. A. (2004) · Cited by 37 · see citing works
Fadiga, L., Craighero, L., Buccino, G., Rizzolatti, G., & Biomediche, S. (2002) · Cited by 13 · see citing works
The Electrical Activity of the Brain
Gastaut, H. (1951) · Annual Review of Physiology · doi:10.1146/annurev.ph.13.030151.001501 · Cited by 8 · see citing works
Neural processing of biological motion in the macaque temporal cortex
Oram, M. W., & Perrett, D. I. (1994) · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · doi:10.1117/12.171138 · Cited by 6 · see citing works
McFarland (2001) · doi:10.1044/1092-4388(2001/012
Flagged first, then by citations
4 of the 201 references couldn’t be matched to a known paper.
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Cattaneo, L., & Rizzolatti, G. (2009) · Archives of Neurology · doi:10.1001/archneurol.2009.41 · Cited by 3,137 · see citing works
“Indeed, a role of mirror system dysfunction has recently been hypothesized for autism spectrum disorder.(32,33) Autism spectrum disorder is most likely a polygenetic disorder that is expressed as impairment of gray matter architecture and of corticocortical intrahemispheric connections.”
Gallagher, S., & Zahavi, D. (2007) · doi:10.4324/9780203086599 · Cited by 1,512 · see citing works
The neuroscience of empathy: Progress, pitfalls and promise
Zaki, J., & Ochsner, K. N. (2012) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nn.3085 · Cited by 1,231 · see citing works
Emotion Theory and Research: Highlights, Unanswered Questions, and Emerging Issues
Izard, C. E. (2008) · Annual Review of Psychology · doi:10.1146/annurev.psych.60.110707.163539 · Cited by 1,100 · see citing works
Mapping early brain development in autism
Courchesne, E., Pierce, K., Schumann, C. M., Redcay, E., Buckwalter, J. A., Kennedy, D. P., & Morgan, J. (2007) · Neuron · doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2007.10.016 · Cited by 860 · see citing works
“Interestingly, these regions include the mirror neuron system, which has been hypothesized by some to be critical in autism (Dapretto et al., 2006; Hadjikhani et al., 2006; Oberman et al., 2005; Oberman and Ramachandran, 2007; Williams et al., 2001, 2006).”
<i>Episodic Simulation of Future Events</i>: <i>Concepts, Data, and Applications</i>
Schacter, D. L., Addis, D. R., & Buckner, R. L. (2008) · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1196/annals.1440.001 · Cited by 840 · see citing works
“…the concept of simulation has played an important role in developmental research concerning theory of mind and related work on “mentalizing,” or the processes involved in reading the mental states of other individuals (for reviews, see Frith & Frith 2006; Goldman 2006; Oberman & Ramachandran 2007).”
BackgroundDirect perception in the intersubjective context
Gallagher, S. (2008) · Consciousness and Cognition · doi:10.1016/j.concog.2008.03.003 · Cited by 659 · see citing works
SOCIAL: An integrative framework for the development of social skills.
Beauchamp, M. H., & Anderson, V. A. (2010) · Psychological Bulletin · doi:10.1037/a0017768 · Cited by 647 · see citing works
Szpunar, K. K. (2010) · Perspectives on Psychological Science · doi:10.1177/1745691610362350 · Cited by 624 · see citing works
“Just as simulations of the past and future provide a functional benefit, so may daydreams (e.g., keeping the mind occupied at times of boredom; Antrobus & Singer, 1964) and simulations of the minds of others (e.g., social communication; Oberman & Ramachandran, 2007).”
BackgroundMirror Neurons, Embodied Simulation, and the Neural Basis of Social Identification
D, V. G. M. (2009) · Psychoanalytic Dialogues · doi:10.1080/10481880903231910 · Cited by 508 · see citing works
“The lack of empathic engagement displayed by autistic children seems to depend on defective embodied simulation, likely underpinned by malfunctioning and/or altered regulation of the MNS (Gallese, 2003b, 2006; see also Oberman & Ramachandran, 2007).”
BackgroundA nexus model of the temporal–parietal junction
Carter, R. M., & Huettel, S. A. (2013) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.tics.2013.05.007 · Cited by 489 · see citing works
Face to face: blocking facial mimicry can selectively impair recognition of emotional expressions
Oberman, L. M., Winkielman, P., & Ramachandran, V. S. (2007) · Social Neuroscience · doi:10.1080/17470910701391943 · Cited by 477 · see citing works
“In general, the MNS is assumed to form an important mechanism of shared representation (Decety & Sommerville, 2003; Oberman & Ramachandran, 2007).”
BackgroundSelf-citationEmpathy development from 8 to 16 months: Early signs of concern for others
Roth‐Hanania, R., Davidov, M., & Zahn‐Waxler, C. (2011) · Infant Behavior and Development · doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2011.04.007 · Cited by 476 · see citing works
“Certain developmental disorders, such as autism spectrum disorders and conduct disorder, involve deficiencies in empathic responding, albeit for different reasons (Blair, 2005; Decety & Meyer, 2008; Oberman & Ramachandran, 2007; Preston & de Waal, 2002).”
BackgroundNeural correlates of admiration and compassion
Immordino‐Yang, M. H., McColl, A., Damásio, H., & Damásio, A. R. (2009) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0810363106 · Cited by 466 · see citing works
The anterior insula in autism: Under-connected and under-examined
Uddin, L. Q., & Menon, V. (2009) · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2009.06.002 · Cited by 424 · see citing works
“…of the brain basis of ASD have taken a systemslevel approach, and proposed that ASD may be explained by abnormalities in the mirror neuron system (Oberman and Ramachandran, 2007; Williams et al., 2001), the default-mode network (Kennedy and Courchesne, 2008; Kennedy et al., 2006), or both…”
BackgroundEisenberg, N., Spinrad, T. L., & Knafo‐Noam, A. (2015) · Wiley eBooks · doi:10.1002/9781118963418.childpsy315 · Cited by 429 · see citing works
Foglia, L., & Wilson, R. A. (2013) · Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science · doi:10.1002/wcs.1226 · Cited by 424 · see citing works
Language and Communication in Autism
Kim, S. H., Paul, R., Tager-Flusberg, H. B., & Lord, C. (2014) · doi:10.1002/9781118911389.hautc10 · Cited by 392 · see citing works
Oberman, L. M., Ramachandran, V. S., & Pineda, J. A. (2008) · Neuropsychologia · doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.01.010 · Cited by 376 · see citing works
“…of system may play an integral role in our ability to represent other's actions, as well as potentially the intentions and emotions that guide actions by creating a mechanism that allows observers to simulate the perception within their own motor and limbic systems (Oberman & Ramachandran, 2007).”
Self-citationYoung, G. S., Merin, N., Rogers, S. J., & Ozonoff, S. (2009) · Developmental Science · doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00833.x · Cited by 368 · see citing works
“The degree to which such areas may be specifically impaired in autism compared to other disorders may ultimately provide important clues to the nature of language deficits in autism (cf., Oberman & Ramachandran, 2007).”
BackgroundMirroring others' emotions relates to empathy and interpersonal competence in children
Pfeifer, J. H., Iacoboni, M., Mazziotta, J. C., & Dapretto, M. (2007) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.10.032 · Cited by 368 · see citing works
“…bearing on this broader issue is lacking, although numerous findings of MNS dysfunction in autism (for reviews, see Iacoboni and Dapretto, 2006, and Oberman and Ramachandran, 2007) are consistent with the hypothesis of MNS involvement in social cognition, given that social deficits are a hallmark…”
Gallagher, S. (2020) · doi:10.1093/oso/9780198846345.001.0001 · Cited by 369 · see citing works
Reflecting on the mirror neuron system in autism: A systematic review of current theories
Hamilton, A. F. D. C. (2012) · Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience · doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2012.09.008 · Cited by 343 · see citing works
Evaluating the Theory-of-Mind Hypothesis of Autism
Tager-Flusberg, H. (2007) · Current Directions in Psychological Science · doi:10.1111/j.1467-8721.2007.00527.x · Cited by 329 · see citing works
“Since mirror neurons were initially described, researchers have proposed that the mirrorneuron system is an important component of the social-cognitive network, and there is evidence for impaired functioning of this system in autism (Oberman & Ramachandran, 2007).”
BackgroundKaur, M., M. Srinivasan, S., & N. Bhat, A. (2018) · Research in Developmental Disabilities · doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2017.10.025 · Cited by 304 · see citing works
“…social-cognitive and emotional skills including theory of mind (Frith & Frith, 1999; Hamilton & Grafton, 2006; Iacoboni et al., 2005), empathy (Oberman & Ramachandran, 2007; Dapretto et al., 2005), interpersonal synchrony (Vicaria and Dickens, 2016), language (Gallese, 2008), and intentional…”
BackgroundHarshaw, C. (2015) · Psychological Bulletin · doi:10.1037/a0038101 · Cited by 302 · see citing works
“…of our own bodily states and the “simulation” and apprehension of such states in others (see Bar-On, Tranel, Denburg, & Bechara, 2003; Decety, 2011; Jabbi et al., 2007; Keysers & Gazzola, 2006; Keysers, Kaas, & Gazzola, 2010; Lamm & Singer, 2010; Oberman & Ramachandran, 2007; Singer et al., 2009).”
BackgroundWhat Happened to Mirror Neurons?
Heyes, C. M., & Catmur, C. (2021) · Perspectives on Psychological Science · doi:10.1177/1745691621990638 · Cited by 289 · see citing works
“…than mirror neurons, contributes to the autistic1 phenotype, Iacoboni stood by the more specific “broken-mirror theory” (Iacoboni & Dapretto, 2006; Oberman & Ramachandran, 2007; Williams et al., 2001; but see Southgate & Hamilton, 2008), citing a range of brain-imaging studies suggesting…”
BackgroundSeeing direct and averted gaze activates the approach–avoidance motivational brain systems
Hietanen, J. K., Leppänen, J. M., Peltola, M. J., Linna-aho, K., & Ruuhiala, H. J. (2008) · Neuropsychologia · doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.02.029 · Cited by 277 · see citing works
“…behavior as evidenced, for example, in the attunement of the facial expressions, the body posture, and the gestures between social interactants (Oberman & Ramachandran, 2007), we hypothesized that another person’s direct and averted gaze would initiate in the observer respectively,…”
BackgroundEbisch, S. J. H., D, V. G. M., Willems, R. M., Mantini, D., Groen, W. B., Romani, G. L., Buitelaar, J. K., & Harold Bekkering, A. (2010) · Human Brain Mapping · doi:10.1002/hbm.21085 · Cited by 278 · see citing works
“Hence, it has been postulated that impaired simulation processes in shared neural circuits are at the root of social deficits in ASD, such as impaired affective and motor empathy [Gallese, 2003, 2006; Minio-Paluello et al., 2009; Oberman and Ramachandran, 2007].”
An integrative neural model of social perception, action observation, and theory of mind
Yang, D. Y.-J., Rosenblau, G., Keifer, C., & Pelphrey, K. A. (2015) · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.01.020 · Cited by 263 · see citing works
“…results show that children with ASD display atypical activation in regions assigned to the mirror neuron system, including the IFG and IPL, when observing facial expressions and hand movements (Dapretto et al., 2006; Martineau et al., 2010; Oberman and Ramachandran, 2007; Williams et al., 2006).”
BackgroundA Meta-Analysis of the Corpus Callosum in Autism
Frazier, T. W., & Hardan, A. Y. (2009) · Biological Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.07.022 · Cited by 267 · see citing works
Words as social tools: language, sociality and inner grounding in abstract concepts
Borghi, A. M., Barca, L., Binkofski, F., Castelfranchi, C., Pezzulo, G., & Tummolini, L. (2019) · Physics of Life Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2018.12.001 · Cited by 253 · see citing works
“The social deficits characterizing autism might be due to a dysfunctional mirror neuron system [190,191].”
BackgroundUnbroken mirrors: challenging a theory of Autism
Southgate, V., & de C. Hamilton, A. F. (2008) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.tics.2008.03.005 · Cited by 265 · see citing works
Motor cognition and its role in the phylogeny and ontogeny of action understanding.
D, V. G. M., Rochat, M. J., Cossu, G., & Sinigaglia, C. (2009) · Developmental Psychology · doi:10.1037/a0014436 · Cited by 266 · see citing works
“…could stem from the incapacity to establish a motor equivalence between demonstrator and imitator, most likely due to a malfunctioning of the mirror neuron system, and/or because of disrupted emotional– affective regulation of the same system (Gallese, 2003b, 2006; Oberman & Ramachandran, 2007).”
BackgroundMinimal self-models and the free energy principle.
Limanowski, J., & Blankenburg, F. (2013) · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00547 · Cited by 263 · see citing works
“For example, perspective taking abilities seem to be often impaired in individuals suffering from Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD; Oberman and Ramachandran, 2007; but cf. Hamilton et al., 2007), while there is also evidence for impaired predictive coding mechanisms in ASD (Friston, 2012a).”
BackgroundUnderconnectivity between voice-selective cortex and reward circuitry in children with autism
Abrams, D. A., Lynch, C. J., Cheng, K. M., Phillips, J., Supekar, K., Ryali, S., Uddin, L. Q., & Menon, V. (2013) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1302982110 · Cited by 250 · see citing works
Dinstein, I., Thomas, C., Behrmann, M., & Heeger, D. J. (2008) · Current Biology · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.11.004 · Cited by 258 · see citing works
“Many theories have suggested a possible role for mirror neurons in mechanisms of action understanding, imitation, empathy, theory of mind, and language [5–7].”
BackgroundAbnormal white matter integrity in young children with autism
Weinstein, M., Ben‐Sira, L., Levy, Y., Zachor, D. A., Itzhak, E. B., Artzi, M., Tarrasch, R., Eksteine, P. M., Hendler, T., & Bashat, D. B. (2010) · Human Brain Mapping · doi:10.1002/hbm.21042 · Cited by 242 · see citing works
“Abnormal findings in these areas in subjects with autism have been related to several hypothesis such as the reduced functional output of the mirror neurons [Oberman and Ramachandran, 2007] and the aberrant connectivity theory [Courchesne et al.”
BackgroundThe Need for a Cognitive Neuroscience of Naturalistic Social Cognition
Zaki, J., & Ochsner, K. N. (2009) · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04601.x · Cited by 229 · see citing works
van Veluw, S. J., & Chance, S. A. (2013) · Brain Imaging and Behavior · doi:10.1007/s11682-013-9266-8 · Cited by 229 · see citing works
Chiu, P. H., Kayali, M. A., Kishida, K. T., Tomlin, D., Klinger, L. G., Klinger, M. R., & Montague, P. R. (2008) · Neuron · doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2007.12.020 · Cited by 209 · see citing works
“Moreover, while deficiencies in the social domain are specifically implicated in autism (American Psychiatric Association, 2000; Baron-Cohen, 2001; Frith, 2001, 2003; Klin et al., 2002; Lord et al., 2000a; Oberman and Ramachandran, 2007), the degree to which our data fit with existing theories about ASD remains an int…”
InfluentialComplementary and Alternative Medicine Treatments for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Levy, S. E., & Hyman, S. L. (2008) · Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America · doi:10.1016/j.chc.2008.06.004 · Cited by 209 · see citing works
“This research tool is currently being used to examine the potential overconnectivity of cortical neurons in autism [110] and to examine neurologic function in other disorders such as ADHD [111].”
MethodMirror-touch synesthesia is linked with empathy
Banissy, M. J., & Ward, J. (2007) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nn1926 · Cited by 209 · see citing works
Neuroendocrinology of social information processing in rats and mice
Choleris, E., Clipperton-Allen, A. E., Phan, A., & Kavaliers, M. (2009) · Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology · doi:10.1016/j.yfrne.2009.05.003 · Cited by 205 · see citing works
“the recognition of faces and their emotion-conveying expressions [8,60,112,232] as well as difficulty imitating others [185,227]”
Distributed Neural Systems for Face Perception
Haxby, J. V., & Gobbini, M. I. (2011) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199559053.013.0006 · Cited by 207 · see citing works
Intuition in Management Research: A Historical Review
Akinci, C., & Sadler-Smith, E. (2012) · International Journal of Management Reviews · doi:10.1111/j.1468-2370.2011.00313.x · Cited by 207 · see citing works
“…intentions, and experiences of others, thereby allowing individuals to " use the same systems that process knowledge about selfperformed actions, self-conceived thoughts, and self-experienced emotions to understand actions, thoughts, and emotions in others " (Oberman and Ramachandran, 2007, p.310).”
Absence of Embodied Empathy During Pain Observation in Asperger Syndrome
Minio-Paluello, I., Baron‐Cohen, S., Avenanti, A., Walsh, V., & Aglioti, S. M. (2008) · Biological Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2008.08.006 · Cited by 204 · see citing works
Oberman, L. M., Winkielman, P., & Ramachandran, V. S. (2009) · Developmental Science · doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00796.x · Cited by 200 · see citing works
“Deficits in these domains are central to autism spectrum disorders (Kanner, 1943; Oberman & Ramachandran, 2007).”
BackgroundSelf-citationUnbroken mirror neurons in autism spectrum disorders
Fan, Y., Jean Decety, A., Yang, C., Liu, J., & Cheng, Y. (2010) · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry · doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2010.02269.x · Cited by 198 · see citing works
Rudie, J. D., Shehzad, Z. E., Hernandez, L. M., Colich, N. L., Bookheimer, S. Y., Iacoboni, M., & Dapretto, M. (2011) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhr171 · Cited by 193 · see citing works
“Cerebral Cortex May 2012;22:1025--1037 doi:10.1093/cercor/bhr171 Advance Access publication July 22, 2011”
BackgroundInfluentialSocial top-down response modulation (STORM): a model of the control of mimicry in social interaction
Wang, Y., & Hamilton, A. F. D. C. (2012) · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnhum.2012.00153 · Cited by 267 · see citing works
“Deficits in imitation and mimicry have also been reported in participants with autistic spectrum disorder (Williams et al., 2004), and some have linked this to the functioning of the MNS (Williams et al., 2001; Oberman et al., 2005; Oberman and Ramachandran, 2007).”
BackgroundNuske, H. J., Vivanti, G., & Dissanayake, C. (2013) · Cognition & Emotion · doi:10.1080/02699931.2012.762900 · Cited by 189 · see citing works
“The ‘‘embodied simulation’’ theory (Gallese, 2006; Oberman & Ramachandran, 2007) posits that emotion processing is mediated by an ‘‘internal simulation’’ process, based on a ‘‘direct mapping’’ between observed and experienced emotions.”
The interpretation of mu suppression as an index of mirror neuron activity: past, present and future
Hobson, H., & Bishop, D. (2017) · Royal Society Open Science · doi:10.1098/rsos.160662 · Cited by 185 · see citing works
Meta-analysis of Gray Matter Abnormalities in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Via, E., Raduà, J., Cardoner, N., Happe, F. G. E., & Mataix‐Cols, D. (2011) · Archives of General Psychiatry · doi:10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.27 · Cited by 184 · see citing works
Gallese, V., Gernsbacher, M. A., Heyes, C. M., Hickok, G. S., & Iacoboni, M. (2011) · Perspectives on Psychological Science · doi:10.1177/1745691611413392 · Cited by 175 · see citing works
“…in MN mechanism functioning could be critical in autism (Dapretto et al., 2006; Gallese, 2003, 2006a; Hadjikhani et al., 2006; Oberman et al., 2005; Oberman & Ramachandran, 2007; Oberman, Ramachandran, & Pineda, 2008; Théoret et al., 2005; Williams et al., 2006; Williams, Whiten, Suddendorf, &…”
Neuroanatomical and neurofunctional markers of social cognition in autism spectrum disorder
Patriquin, M. A., DeRamus, T. P., Libero, L. E., Laird, A. R., & Kana, R. K. (2016) · Human Brain Mapping · doi:10.1002/hbm.23288 · Cited by 179 · see citing works
“Several functional [Dapretto et al., 2006; Oberman et al., 2005] and anatomical [Hadjikhani et al., 2009] abnormalities have been reported in the IFG in autism by previous studies.”
ResultImpairments of Social Motor Synchrony Evident in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Fitzpatrick, P., Frazier, J. A., Cochran, D., Mitchell, T. V., Coleman, C., & Schmidt, R. C. (2016) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01323 · Cited by 168 · see citing works
“…have proposed that an atypically functioning mirror neuron system may be the underlying mechanism (Rogers and Pennington, 1991; Charman et al., 1997; Williams et al., 2001; Rogers et al., 2003; Gallese, 2006; Oberman and Ramachandran, 2007; Colombi et al., 2009; Rizzolatti and Fabbri-Destro, 2010).”
BackgroundMoving Ourselves, Moving Others
Zlatev, J., Racine, T. P., Lüdtke, U. M., & Foolen, A. (2012) · Consciousness & emotion book series · doi:10.1075/ceb.6 · Cited by 160 · see citing works
Pineda, J. A., & Hecht, E. E. (2008) · Biological Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.11.003 · Cited by 153 · see citing works
A Shift to Randomness of Brain Oscillations in People with Autism
Lai, M.-C., Lombardo, M. V., Chakrabarti, B., Sadek, S. A., Pasco, G., Wheelwright, S. J., Bullmore, E. T., Baron-Cohen, S., & Suckling, J. (2010) · Biological Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.06.027 · Cited by 153 · see citing works
Atypical Cross Talk Between Mentalizing and Mirror Neuron Networks in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Fishman, I., Keown, C. L., Lincoln, A. J., Pineda, J. A., & Müller, R.-A. (2014) · JAMA Psychiatry · doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2014.83 · Cited by 153 · see citing works
Normal Movement Selectivity in Autism
Dinstein, I., Thomas, C., Humphreys, K., Minshew, N. J., Behrmann, M., & Heeger, D. J. (2010) · Neuron · doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2010.03.034 · Cited by 149 · see citing works
Spunt, R. P., & Lieberman, M. D. (2011) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.10.005 · Cited by 149 · see citing works
“One prominent hypothesis is that these are caused by a dysfunctional mirror neuron system (Oberman and Ramachandran, 2007).”
BackgroundInfluentialFacial EMG Responses to Emotional Expressions Are Related to Emotion Perception Ability
Künecke, J., Hildebrandt, A., Recio, G., Sommer, W., & Wilhelm, O. (2014) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0084053 · Cited by 148 · see citing works
“populations like patients with autism [60] or disruptive behavior”
BackgroundAbsence of contagious yawning in children with autism spectrum disorder
Senju, A., Maeda, M., Kikuchi, Y., Hasegawa, T., Tojo, Y., & Osanai, H. (2007) · Biology Letters · doi:10.1098/rsbl.2007.0337 · Cited by 145 · see citing works
“The results suggest that individuals with ASD do not have a fundamental impairment in catching others’ yawns, such as the impairment to empathize with others [41].”
BackgroundFrom Mirror Neurons to Complex Imitation in the Evolution of Language and Tool Use
Arbib, M. A. (2010) · Annual Review of Anthropology · doi:10.1146/annurev-anthro-081309-145722 · Cited by 141 · see citing works
Zaki, J., Hennigan, K. M., Weber, J., & Ochsner, K. N. (2010) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.0382-10.2010 · Cited by 141 · see citing works
“An emerging view suggests that, although the MNS and MSAS may be functionally dissociable (Van Overwalle and Baetens, 2009), interactions between these systems and domain-general cognitive control mechanisms best characterize everyday social cognition (Zaki and Ochsner, 2009).”
Löwing, K., Bexelius, A., & Carlberg, E. B. (2009) · Disability and Rehabilitation · doi:10.1080/09638280902822278 · Cited by 143 · see citing works
Williams, J. H. G. (2008) · Autism Research · doi:10.1002/aur.15 · Cited by 140 · see citing works
“The mirror neuron hypothesis of autism has also received considerable attention [Iacoboni & Dapretto, 2006; Oberman & Ramachandran, 2007].”
BackgroundPoon, K. K., Watson, L. R., Baranek, G. T., & Poe, M. D. (2011) · Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders · doi:10.1007/s10803-011-1349-z · Cited by 137 · see citing works
“It is possible that the relationship between these three social-communicative behaviors represent earlier manifestations of a more global impairment (e.g., motor neurons) with impact in language, object play, motor skills, and empathy ( Oberman and Ramachandran 2007; Williams et al. 2001).”
BackgroundEmpathy, Connectedness and Organisation
Pavlovich, K., & Krahnke, K. (2011) · Journal of Business Ethics · doi:10.1007/s10551-011-0961-3 · Cited by 138 · see citing works
“These mirror neurons, often called empathy neurons, suggest that the observer has the ability to acknowledge the current state and experience of the other individual (Oberman and Ramachandran 2007).”
BackgroundPower changes how the brain responds to others.
Hogeveen, J., Inzlicht, M., & Obhi, S. S. (2014) · Journal of Experimental Psychology: General · doi:10.1037/a0033477 · Cited by 135 · see citing works
“…to action execution become active when the person observes someone else making the same action; in other words, the observer’s brain resonates with the model’s motor behavior (Hogeveen & Obhi, 2011; Iacoboni, 2009; Oberman & Ramachandran, 2007; Obhi & Hogeveen, 2010; Rizzolatti & Sinigaglia, 2010).”
BackgroundReintegrating the Study of Accuracy Into Social Cognition Research
Zaki, J., & Ochsner, K. N. (2011) · Psychological Inquiry · doi:10.1080/1047840x.2011.551743 · Cited by 133 · see citing works
“, & Ochsner, K. (2009). Unpacking the informational bases of empathic accuracy.”
BackgroundSchraa‐Tam, C. K. L., Rietdijk, W. J. R., Verbeke, W. J. M. I., Dietvorst, R. C., van den Berg, W. E., Bagozzi, R. P., & Zeeuw, C. I. D. (2011) · The Cerebellum · doi:10.1007/s12311-011-0301-2 · Cited by 134 · see citing works
“Such impairments may well affect the ability to communicate and empathize with perspectives of other persons [7].”
Perceived interpersonal synchrony increases empathy: Insights from autism spectrum disorder
Koehne, S., Hatri, A., Cacioppo, J. T., & Dziobek, I. (2015) · Cognition · doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2015.09.007 · Cited by 132 · see citing works
“It is assumed that spontaneously imitating observed mental states allows for a direct first person access to that state, thus it can follow that impairments in imitation also affect empathy functions (Gallese & Goldman, 1998; Oberman & Ramachandran, 2007).”
BackgroundInterpersonal Synchrony in Autism
McNaughton, K. A., & Redcay, E. (2020) · Current Psychiatry Reports · doi:10.1007/s11920-020-1135-8 · Cited by 133 · see citing works
Research review: Goals, intentions and mental states: challenges for theories of autism
Hamilton, A. F. D. C. (2009) · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry · doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2009.02098.x · Cited by 133 · see citing works
“…autism is premised on the idea that the disruption of basic mirroring mechanisms in autism would have a cascading impact on more complex types of simulation, first goal understanding and later language and mentalising (Iacoboni & Dapretto, 2006; Oberman & Ramachandran, 2007; Williams et al., 2001).”
Empathy in autism Spectrum disorder
Harmsen, I. E. (2019) · Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders · doi:10.1007/s10803-019-04087-w · Cited by 129 · see citing works
Revisiting mu suppression in autism spectrum disorder
Dumas, G., Soussignan, R., Hugueville, L., Martinerie, J., & Nadel, J. (2014) · Brain Research · doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2014.08.035 · Cited by 120 · see citing works
“Our Psycho Physiological Interaction (PPI) analysis has revealed a significant functional coupling of the MNS with the mentalizing system during imitative interaction (Sperduti et al., 2014).”
InfluentialThe visual perception of motion by observers with autism spectrum disorders: A review and synthesis
Kaiser, M. D., & Shiffrar, M. (2009) · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review · doi:10.3758/pbr.16.5.761 · Cited by 124 · see citing works
“…years, several groups have focused on the functionality of the mirror neuron system (MNS) in observers with ASD (e.g., Dapretto et al., 2006; Gallese, 2006; Iacoboni & Dapretto, 2006; Nishitani, Avikainen, & Hari, 2004; Oberman & Ramachandran, 2007; Williams, 2008; Williams, Whiten, & Singh, 2004).”
BackgroundBoucher, J. (2012) · Autism · doi:10.1177/1362361311430403 · Cited by 124 · see citing works
“Williams et al. (2001), and also Oberman and Ramachandran (2007), have taken this argument a step further, suggesting that both imitation and the ability to simulate or imagine the mental states of others are mediated by mirror neurons (Gallese and Goldman, 1998; Gallese et al., 2004), and that the…”
BackgroundWan, C. Y., Bazen, L., Baars, R., Libenson, A., Zipse, L., Zuk, J., Norton, A. C., & Gottfried Schlaug, A. (2011) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025505 · Cited by 123 · see citing works
Cross-Cultural Validation of the Empathy Quotient in a French-Speaking Sample
Berthoz, S., Wessa, M., Kedia, G., Wicker, B., & Grèzes, J. (2008) · Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · doi:10.1177/070674370805300712 · Cited by 116 · see citing works
Neurobiological correlates of social functioning in autism
Neuhaus, E., Beauchaine, T. P., & Bernier, R. (2010) · Clinical Psychology Review · doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2010.05.007 · Cited by 122 · see citing works
Keren, G. B. (2013) · Perspectives on Psychological Science · doi:10.1177/1745691613483474 · Cited by 122 · see citing works
“The answer is most likely negative, because simulations are central to processes typically considered to be Type 1, such as perception, categorization, and motor movements (Barsalou, 1999, 2003; Oberman & Ramachandran, 2007).”
Unpacking Intuition: A Process and Outcome Framework
Gore, J., & Sadler-Smith, E. (2011) · Review of General Psychology · doi:10.1037/a0025069 · Cited by 124 · see citing works
Electrophysiological signatures of intentional social coordination in the 10–12Hz range
Naeem, M., Prasad, G., Watson, D. R., & Kelso, J. A. S. (2011) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.08.010 · Cited by 115 · see citing works
“It has been argued, for example, that the mirror neuron system(MNS) is not lateralizedbut that asymmetriesmayappearon the basis of task-dependent functions (Miller and Cummings, 2007).”
BackgroundResultInfluentialSaygın, A. P., Cook, J. L., & Blakemore, S. (2010) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013491 · Cited by 120 · see citing works
“Abnormalities with this system have been suggested to underlie the problems with social cognition observed in ASC [9–12], although there is still debate about whether this is the case [13].”
Social cognition and Theory of Mind in patients with relapsing‐remitting multiple sclerosis
Bánáti, M., Sándor, J., Mike, A., Illes, E., Bors, L., Feldmann, Á., Herold, R., & Illés, Z. (2010) · European Journal of Neurology · doi:10.1111/j.1468-1331.2009.02836.x · Cited by 132 · see citing works
Autism spectrum disorders: clinical and research frontiers
Caronna, E. B., Milunsky, J. M., & Tager-Flusberg, H. B. (2008) · Archives of Disease in Childhood · doi:10.1136/adc.2006.115337 · Cited by 121 · see citing works
How children with autism look at events
von Hofsten, C., Söderström, H., Adell, M., & Kochukhova, O. (2009) · Research in Autism · doi:10.1016/j.rasd.2008.12.003 · Cited by 119 · see citing works
“It has important implications for the development of such complex and diverse social competences as imitation, language and empathy (Oberman & Ramachandran, 2007).”
BackgroundNeural Basis of Self and Other Representation in Autism: An fMRI Study of Self-Face Recognition
Uddin, L. Q., Davies, M. S., Scott, A. A., Zaidel, E., Bookheimer, S. Y., Iacoboni, M., & Dapretto, M. (2008) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003526 · Cited by 118 · see citing works
“Recently, it has been proposed that mirror neuron dysfunction may underlie some of the symptoms characteristic of ASD, including deficits in social cognition [17– 19].”
BackgroundFrom music making to speaking: Engaging the mirror neuron system in autism
Wan, C. Y., Demaine, K. L., Zipse, L., Norton, A. C., & Gottfried Schlaug, A. (2010) · Brain Research Bulletin · doi:10.1016/j.brainresbull.2010.04.010 · Cited by 117 · see citing works
“Thus, the shared representations of mouth movements and visual and auditory perceptions within the mirror neuron system may help to strengthen the associations between objects and their names [81].”
Mirror Neuron Activity Associated with Social Impairments but not Age in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Enticott, P. G., Kennedy, H. A., Rinehart, N., Tonge, B. J., Bradshaw, J. L., Taffe, J. R., Daskalakis, Z. J., & Fitzgerald, P. B. (2011) · Biological Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.09.001 · Cited by 114 · see citing works
Dissociation of mirroring and mentalising systems in autism
Marsh, L. E., & Hamilton, A. F. D. C. (2011) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.02.003 · Cited by 114 · see citing works
“The dominant explanation for action comprehension difficulties in autism is the broken mirror hypothesis, which claims that dysfunction of neural systems for mirroring is a primary cause of poor social skills in autism (Gallese et al., 2009; Iacoboni and Dapretto, 2006; Oberman and Ramachandran, 2007; Rizzolatti and F…”
BackgroundGenetic and neurological foundations of customer orientation: field and experimental evidence
Bagozzi, R. P., Verbeke, W. J. M. I., van den Berg, W. E., Rietdijk, W. J. R., Dietvorst, R. C., & Worm, L. (2011) · Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science · doi:10.1007/s11747-011-0271-4 · Cited by 113 · see citing works
“Oberman and Ramachandran (2007) note that MNs play a key role in the neural circuitry underlying the simulation of social understanding ; they called this the simulation account of empathy.”
The Empathy Quotient: A cross-cultural comparison of the Italian version
Preti, A., Vellante, M., Baron‐Cohen, S., Zucca, G., Петретто, Д. Р., & Masala, C. (2010) · Cognitive Neuropsychiatry · doi:10.1080/13546801003790982 · Cited by 116 · see citing works
Winkielman, P., Niedenthal, P. M., & Oberman, L. M. (2008) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511805837.012 · Cited by 106 · see citing works
Self-citationTheory of Mind Deficits and Neurophysiological Operations in Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Review
Ανδρέου, Μ., & Skrimpa, V. (2020) · Brain Sciences · doi:10.3390/brainsci10060393 · Cited by 110 · see citing works
“Due to the fact that individuals with ASD demonstrate impairments in all the aforementioned domains, it is suggested that the system of MN is dysfunctional in ASD [31,32].”
BackgroundResultVelayudhan, R., & Mohandas, E. (2007) · Indian Journal of Psychiatry · doi:10.4103/0019-5545.31522 · Cited by 114 · see citing works
- Authors
- Oberman, L. M., & Ramachandran, V. S.
- Affiliations
- University of California San Diego (US)
- ORCID
- Oberman, Lindsay M.
- Venue
- Psychological Bulletin
- Published
- 2007-03
- Volume
- 133
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 310-327
- ISSN
- 0033-2909 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1455
- OpenAlex
- W2145945667
- Semantic Scholar
- 666116b9135d9fb9cd3d19c9d594c8b530996226
- Cited by
- 630
- References
- 201
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 35 · 2022: 35 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 70 · 2019: 42 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 30 · 2016: 28 · 2015: 31 · 2014: 40 · 2013: 38 · 2012: 38
- FWCI
- 64.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychological Bulletin (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Keywords
- mirror neuron system, simulation theory, autism spectrum disorder, social cognition, theory of mind, empathy, imitation, language development, social communication deficits, self-other perception
- MeSH terms
- Autistic Disorder, Brain, Child, Cognition Disorders, Communication Disorders, Empathy, Humans, Imitative Behavior, Language Disorders, Nerve Net, Social Behavior, Social Perception, Speech Perception, Verbal Behavior
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
