Year: 2021
Type: review
Abstract: The mirror neuron system has dominated understanding of observational learning from a cognitive neuroscience perspective. Our review highlights the value of observational learning frameworks that integrate a more diverse and distributed set of cognitive and brain systems, including those implicated in sensorimotor transformations, as well as in more general processes such as executive control, reward, and social cognition. We argue that understanding how observational learning occurs in the real world will require neuroscientific frameworks that consider how visuomotor processes interface with more general aspects of cognition, as well as how learning context and action complexity shape mechanisms supporting learning from watching others.
Source: Trends in Neurosciences
Institutions: Macquarie University, University of Glasgow
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $6,700
Awards: Mechanisms and Consequences of Attributing Socialness to Artificial Agents, G3010818195, G4268759729, G4711762571, G4733293814, Watch and Learn: Mapping the Behavioural and Neural Profile of Observational Learning Throughout the Lifespan, When bodies and traits collide: Investigating a "Who" system for social cognition
OpenAlex ID: W3118537134