Developmental changes in imitation during mother–infant interactions

Markodimitraki, Maria; Kalpidou, Maria

doi:10.1080/03004430.2019.1660962

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“…In addition to showing that sensorimotor learning is important for mirror neuron development, recent research suggests that, in everyday life, much of this learning occurs in the context of social interactions between infants and their caregivers. The extent to which mothers imitate infant facial expressions at two months postpartum predicts EEG alpha suppression at nine months during observation of the same facial expressions (Rayson et al, 2017; see also Markodimitraki & Kalpidou, 2019;Murray et al, 2018). Furthermore, this relationship is action specific.…”

Section: Sensorimotor Learningmentioning

confidence: 97%

What happened to mirror neurons?

Heyes¹,

Catmur²

2020

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Ten years ago, Perspectives in Psychological Science published the Mirror Neuron Forum, debating the role of mirror neurons in action understanding, speech, imitation and autism, and asking whether mirror neurons are acquired through visual-motor learning. Subsequent research on these themes has made significant advances, which should encourage further system-level research: Action understanding - Multivoxel pattern analysis, patient studies, and brain stimulation suggest that mirror neuron brain areas contribute to low-level processing of observed actions (e.g. distinguishing types of grip), but not to high-level action interpretation (e.g. inferring actors’ intentions). Speech perception – Although it remains unclear whether mirror neurons play a specific, causal role in speech perception, there is compelling evidence for the involvement of the motor system in the discrimination of speech in perceptually noisy conditions. Imitation – There is strong evidence from patient, brain stimulation and brain imaging studies that mirror neuron brain areas play a causal role in copying of body movement topography. Autism – Studies using behavioural and neurological measures have tried and failed to find evidence supporting the “broken mirror” theory of autism. Furthermore, research on the origin of mirror neurons has confirmed the importance of domain-general visual-motor learning, rather than canalised visual-motor learning, or motor learning alone.

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Section: Sensorimotor Learningmentioning

confidence: 97%

What happened to mirror neurons?

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Catmur²

2020

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“…Delineated from Sameroff’s exchange theory ( Sameroff, 2009 ), this result is in line with the findings from previous studies that parent–child relationships have dynamic characteristics of exchanging influences over time rather than at a specific point in time. For example, the behavior of 10-month toddlers imitating their mother’s voice increased over time ( Markodimitraki and Kalpidou, 2021 ), and the level of vocabulary in 18-month toddlers predicted that of 24 months of age in toddlers later ( Suttora and Salerni, 2011 ). Expanding this result obtained from the family context to that of daily routines in ECEC, the patterns of interaction between toddlers and teachers reflect the mechanism that shares social and emotional shared meanings and integrates dynamic elements in nature.…”

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Toddler–teacher interaction and teachers’ sensitivity as predictors of toddler’s development during COVID-19: Stability or change over time

Seo

Song

2023

Front. Psychol.

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This study examined the stability and change patterns among toddlers’ interactions with their teachers, teachers’ sensitivity, and toddlers’ development during the COVID-19 pandemic and the three plausible paths were tested to identify which of the study variables affected the development of toddlers in subsequent periods over time. The subjects of this study were 63 toddlers and 6 head teachers who attended a subsidized child care center, located in Kyunggi province, Korea. In order to carry out the research objectives, a non-experimental survey research design was undertaken, and the qualitative data was obtained via on-site observations by trained researchers. With regard to continuity and change patterns among the study variables toddlers who had been actively involved in initiating their verbal interactions with teachers showed more verbal interactions with their teachers even after 4 months passed. Also, it was found that the early (T1) social disposition of toddlers and the behavioral interaction that toddlers had initiated with teachers revealed a significant effect, supporting each of the three models, which are simultaneous, cumulative, and complex paths. The main results of this research support the contention that the interaction patterns vary by contexts of subject, time, and history, indicating that it would be useful to understand new competencies required for teachers within the context of the multi-faceted ramifications of the pandemic on toddler development.

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“…In addition to showing that sensorimotor learning is important for mirror-neuron development, recent research suggests that in everyday life, much of this learning occurs in the context of social interactions between infants and their caregivers. The extent to which mothers imitate infant facial expressions at 2 months postpartum predicts EEG α suppression at 9 months during observation of the same facial expressions ( Rayson et al, 2017 ; see also Markodimitraki & Kalpidou, 2019 ; Murray et al, 2018 ). Furthermore, this relationship is action specific.…”

Section: Originsmentioning

confidence: 99%

What Happened to Mirror Neurons?

Heyes

Catmur

2021

Perspect Psychol Sci

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Ten years ago, Perspectives in Psychological Science published the Mirror Neuron Forum, in which authors debated the role of mirror neurons in action understanding, speech, imitation, and autism and asked whether mirror neurons are acquired through visual-motor learning. Subsequent research on these themes has made significant advances, which should encourage further, more systematic research. For action understanding, multivoxel pattern analysis, patient studies, and brain stimulation suggest that mirror-neuron brain areas contribute to low-level processing of observed actions (e.g., distinguishing types of grip) but not to high-level action interpretation (e.g., inferring actors’ intentions). In the area of speech perception, although it remains unclear whether mirror neurons play a specific, causal role in speech perception, there is compelling evidence for the involvement of the motor system in the discrimination of speech in perceptually noisy conditions. For imitation, there is strong evidence from patient, brain-stimulation, and brain-imaging studies that mirror-neuron brain areas play a causal role in copying of body movement topography. In the area of autism, studies using behavioral and neurological measures have tried and failed to find evidence supporting the “broken-mirror theory” of autism. Furthermore, research on the origin of mirror neurons has confirmed the importance of domain-general visual-motor associative learning rather than canalized visual-motor learning, or motor learning alone.

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Developmental changes in imitation during mother–infant interactions

Cited by 8 publications

References 25 publications

What happened to mirror neurons?

What happened to mirror neurons?

Toddler–teacher interaction and teachers’ sensitivity as predictors of toddler’s development during COVID-19: Stability or change over time

What Happened to Mirror Neurons?

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