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The neural basis of Imitative behavior: Parietal actions and frontal programs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1998

Naoyasu Motomura
Naoyasu Motomura
Affiliation:
Department of Health Science, Osaka Kyoiku University, Osaka 582, [email protected]
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Abstract

Byrne & Russon suggest that there are two kinds of imitation learning – action level and program level – and that the latter is critical for great apes' learning. I have interpreted this phenomenon from the standpoint of clinical neuropsychology and conjecture that action-level imitation might be related to parietal lobe function and program-level imitation might be related to frontal lobe function.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 5 , October 1998 , pp. 700 - 701
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© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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