Abstract
Contingency is Crucial for Creating Imitative Responses
Highlights
In order to imitate, we must translate the visual representation of an action into the motor commands which will produce the same action
The Hebbian perspective (Keysers and Perrett, 2004) considers mirror responses to result from Hebbian learning
This has led to suggestions that the Hebbian account cannot fully explain why most mirror neurons respond to the observation and performance of the same action
Summary
We must translate the visual representation of an action into the motor commands which will produce the same action. As illustrated in the axiom “cells that fire together, wire together,” relies on the temporal contiguity between stimuli and responses (observed and performed actions): any two representations which are active at the same time can become associated. The ASL theory predicts that observed and performed actions will become associated only when a contingent, predictive relationship exists between the sight and the performance of an action.
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