Citation

Provine RR. Behav. Brain Sci. 2014; 37(2): 216-217.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250. provine@umbc.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Cambridge University Press)

DOI

10.1017/S0140525X13002458

PMID

24775173

Abstract

Contagious behaviors such as yawning and itching/scratching have mirror-like properties and clearly defined stimulus and motor parameters; they are also relatively easy to study and should be part of the debate about mirror neurons and the neurological mechanisms of social behavior. The broadly tuned, multimodal stimuli of contagious behavior challenge present accounts of mirror mechanisms that focus on specific, mirrored acts.

Language: en