Year: 2004
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: In this paper, I would like to emphasize the developmental role of imitation as a foundation for the emergence of a sense of agency (i.e. a sense of being the owner of one’s own action). There is a large body of psychological and neuroimaging experiments that have demonstrated that perception of action share some common neural and cognitive mechanisms with action generation, action simulation, action recognition and action imitation. How the concept of shared motor representations relate to neonatal imitation is of major interest. Indeed, primary wired perceptualmotor coupling may be viewed as primitives of imitation which could play a main constitutive role in the establishment of a distinction between action originating from self and action originating from others.
Author: Jacqueline Nadel
Institution: Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W202079318