Greg Hickock, “Beyond Mirror Neurons” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Neuroscience
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Is There a Mirroring Mechanism for Imitation?
The ability to imitate abna, generally, is the basis for all the things that humans can do. We obviously imitate, or learn a lot from imitating others. Other lots of other species do the same thing, from dogs to to octopus. Octopus can do obs we call t observation ar learning, and been demonstrated in a range of species. Yet there was an impressive demonstration of an octopus learning how to get into a container from watching another one who had figured it out. And kids are really good at it, there's no doubt about it.
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