Acquisition of automatic imitation is sensitive to sensorimotor contingency.
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The associative sequence learning model proposes that the development of the mirror system depends on the same mechanisms of associative learning that mediate Pavlovian and instrumental conditioning. To test this model, two experiments used the reduction of automatic imitation through incompatible sensorimotor training to assess whether mirror system plasticity is sensitive to contingency (i.e., the extent to which activation of one representation predicts activation of another). In Experiment 1, residual automatic imitation was measured following incompatible training in which the action stimulus was a perfect predictor of the response (contingent) or not at all predictive of the response (noncontingent). A contingency effect was observed: There was less automatic imitation indicative of more learning in the contingent group. Experiment 2 replicated this contingency effect and showed that, as predicted by associative learning theory, it can be abolished by signaling trials in which the response occurs in the absence of an action stimulus. These findings support the view that mirror system development depends on associative learning and indicate that this learning is not purely Hebbian. If this is correct, associative learning theory could be used to explain, predict, and intervene in mirror system development.
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Experimental data and modeling work indicate that the sensorimotor learning which changes MNs depends on contingency as well as contiguity.
“experimental data and modeling work have indicated that the sensorimotor learning which changes MNs depends on contingency as well as contiguity”
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- Authors
- Cook, R., Press, C., Dickinson, A., & Heyes, C.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (GB)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Venue
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
- Published
- 2010
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 840-852
- ISSN
- 0096-1523 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1277
- OpenAlex
- W2035180286
- Cited by
- 75
- References
- 57
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 4 · 2023: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 12
- FWCI
- 11.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- discovery.ucl.ac.uk
- Locations
- Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- BIROn (Birkbeck, University of London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Medical Research Council
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Free Will and Agency
- Keywords
- automatic imitation, sensorimotor contingencies, associative learning, classical conditioning, operant conditioning, Hebbian learning, motor learning
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Association Learning, Attention, Conditioning, Psychological, Cues, Discrimination Learning, Female, Gestures, Humans, Imitative Behavior, Male, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Psychomotor Performance, Reaction Time, Young Adult
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