Methodological issues in measures of imitative reaction times

被引：22

作者：

Aicken, Michael D. ^{[1
]}

Wilson, Andrew. D. ^{[1
]}

Williams, Justin H. G. ^{[1
]}

Mon-Williams, Mark ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Aberdeen, Coll Life Sci & Med, Aberdeen AB24 2UB, Scotland

来源：

BRAIN AND COGNITION | 2007年 / 63卷 / 03期

关键词：

imitation; social cognition; reaction time; ideomotor theory; human; mirror neurons; correspondence problem; motor control;

D O I：

10.1016/j.bandc.2006.09.005

中图分类号：

Q189 [神经科学];

学科分类号：

071006 ;

摘要：

Ideomotor (IM) theory suggests that observing someone else perform an action activates an internal motor representation of that behaviour within the observer. Evidence supporting the case for an ideomotor theory of imitation has come from studies that show imitative responses to be faster than the same behavioural measures performed in response to spatial cues. In an attempt to replicate these findings, we manipulated the salience of the visual cue and found that we could reverse the advantage of the imitative cue over the spatial cue. We suggest that participants utilised a simple visuomotor mechanism to perform all aspects of this task, with performance being driven by the relative visual salience of the stimuli. Imitation is a more complex motor skill that would constitute an inefficient strategy for rapid performance. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：304 / 308

页数：5