SOCIAL BRAIN IN ACTION LABORATORY

Humans, as well as other animals, automatically imitate others actions, a process that builds rapport, liking, and affiliation between individuals. Work in the SoBA Lab is primarily interested in further understanding the neurobiological foundations that underpin this copying behaviour. Recent work in the lab has investigated how perceptions of animacy influence the neural control of imitation - see media attention. Other work on this topic investigates how individual differences in fundamental personality characteristics determine the propensity to automatically imitate others, as well as how social signals from the face modulate imitative tendencies.

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