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Leighton, Jane; Bird, Geoffrey; Heyes, Cecilia – Cognition, 2010
Several theories suggest that actions are coded for imitation in terms of mentalistic goals, or inferences about the actor's intentions, and that these goals solve the "correspondence problem" by allowing sensory input to be translated into matching motor output. We tested this intention reading hypothesis against general process accounts of…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Imitation, Error Patterns, Intention