Intention to imitate: Top-down effects on 4-year-olds’ neural processing of others’ actions | Zendy

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Intention to imitate: Top-down effects on 4-year-olds’ neural processing of others’ actions

Author(s) -

Marlene Meyer,

Hinke M. Endedijk,

Sabine Hunnius

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

developmental cognitive neuroscience

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.662

H-Index - 64

eISSN - 1878-9307

pISSN - 1878-9293

DOI - 10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100851

Subject(s) - psychology , imitation , mirroring , action (physics) , cognitive psychology , task (project management) , developmental psychology , neuroscience , communication , physics , management , quantum mechanics , economics

Highlights• Intention to imitate increases 4-year-olds’ neural motor activity during action observation. • Top-down attention to others’ actions affects children’s neural action processing. • We propose top-down effects are driven by an oscillation network with frontal theta predicting motor-related alpha/beta power.

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