Highlights•Imitation is a social act, promoting parent–infant affiliation.•Culture is transmitted
across generations via imitation.•Infants can imitate from memory and regulate their …

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 …

More than 35 years ago, Meltzoff and Moore (1977) published their famous article,“Imitation
of facial and manual gestures by human neonates.” Their central conclusion, that neonates …

Human imitation is supported by an underlying “mirror system” principally composed of
inferior frontal, inferior parietal, and superior temporal cortical regions. Across primate …

Hayes & Watson, 1981; Koepke, Hamm, Legerstee, & Russell, 1983) outcomes. In the
broader literature, there have even been mutually exclusive rationalizations of null results …

A review by the ManyPrimates project confirmed longstanding beliefs about the field of
primate cognition. Namely, research is driven by a handful of species, often from the same …

Over the past decade, a growing number of publications have claimed to provide evidence
for the existence and function of neonatal imitation in rhesus macaques. Here I show that …

The influential hypothesis that humans imitate from birth–and that this capacity is
foundational to social cognition–is currently being challenged from several angles. Most …

Imitation is central to human development. Imitation involves mapping between the
perception and production of actions. Imitation after delays implicates preverbal memory …

Numerous tutorial publications are available to researchers seeking the procedures needed
to analyze longitudinal count response variable data. However, most of the available tutorial …