For most of human history, face-to-face interactions have been the primary and most
fundamental way to build social relationships, and even in the digital era they remain the …

Observing someone perform an action automatically activates neural substrates associated
with executing that action. This covert response, or automatic imitation, is measured …

Simulation accounts of speech perception posit that speech is covertly imitated to support
perception in a top-down manner. Behaviourally, covert imitation is measured through the …

Perceptuomotor compatibility between phonemically identical spoken and perceived
syllables has been found to speed up response times (RTs) in speech production tasks …

In the cue-distractor paradigm, individuals observe a spoken distractor syllable while
responding to a visual cue referring to a syllable. When the task is to utter the cued syllable …

Observing someone speak automatically triggers cognitive and neural mechanisms required
to produce speech, a phenomenon known as automatic imitation. Automatic imitation of …

In a cue-distractor task, speakers' response times (RTs) were found to speed up when they
perceived a distractor syllable whose vowel was identical to the vowel in the syllable they …

The observation-execution links underlying automatic-imitation processes are suggested to
result from associative sensorimotor experience of performing and watching the same …

In face-to-face communication, audio-visual (AV) stimuli can be fused, combined or
perceived as mismatching. While the left superior temporal sulcus (STS) is presumably the …

Perceptuomotor compatibility between phonemically identical spoken and perceived
syllables has been found to speed up response times (RTs) in speech production tasks …