Cecilia Heyes

• Imitation: Not in Our Genes.

  Heyes C., (2016), Curr Biol, 26, R412 - R414

• Blackboxing: social learning strategies and cultural evolution.

  Heyes C., (2016), Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 371

• Timecourse of mirror and counter-mirror effects measured with transcranial magnetic stimulation.

  Cavallo A. et al, (2014), Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci, 9, 1082 - 1088

• Neither Shaken nor Stirred: Reply to Bertenthal and Scheutz.

  Cooper RP. et al, (2013), Cogn Sci, 37, 642 - 645

• Are automatic imitation and spatial compatibility mediated by different processes?

  Cooper RP. et al, (2013), Cogn Sci, 37, 605 - 630

• Associative (not Hebbian) learning and the mirror neuron system.

  Cooper RP. et al, (2013), Neurosci Lett, 540, 28 - 36

• Players of Matching Pennies automatically imitate opponents' gestures against strong incentives.

  Belot M. et al, (2013), Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 110, 2763 - 2768

• Celia Heyes.

  Heyes C., (2013), Curr Biol, 23, R98 - 100

• Imitation: Associative and Context Dependent

  Heyes C., (2013), ACTION SCIENCE: FOUNDATIONS OF AN EMERGING DISCIPLINE, 309 - 332

• Facial self-imitation: objective measurement reveals no improvement without visual feedback.

  Cook R. et al, (2013), Psychol Sci, 24, 93 - 98

• Contextual modulation of mirror and countermirror sensorimotor associations.

  Cook R. et al, (2012), J Exp Psychol Gen, 141, 774 - 787

• Simple minds: a qualified defence of associative learning.

  Heyes C., (2012), Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 367, 2695 - 2703

• New thinking: the evolution of human cognition.

  Heyes C., (2012), Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 367, 2091 - 2096

• Grist and mills: on the cultural origins of cultural learning.

  Heyes C., (2012), Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 367, 2181 - 2191

• What's social about social learning?

  Heyes C., (2012), J Comp Psychol, 126, 193 - 202

• Self-recognition of avatar motion: how do I know it's me?

  Cook R. et al, (2012), Proc Biol Sci, 279, 669 - 674

• Automatic imitation in a strategic context: players of rock-paper-scissors imitate opponents' gestures.

  Cook R. et al, (2012), Proc Biol Sci, 279, 780 - 786

• Training social cognition: from imitation to Theory of Mind.

  Santiesteban I. et al, (2012), Cognition, 122, 228 - 235

• FMRI evidence of 'mirror' responses to geometric shapes.

  Press C. et al, (2012), PLoS One, 7

• Associative (not Hebbian) learning and the mirror neuron system

  Cooper RP. et al, (2012), Neuroscience Letters

• Making mirrors: premotor cortex stimulation enhances mirror and counter-mirror motor facilitation.

  Catmur C. et al, (2011), J Cogn Neurosci, 23, 2352 - 2362

• Mirror Neuron Forum.

  Gallese V. et al, (2011), Perspect Psychol Sci, 6, 369 - 407

• Learning to understand others' actions.

  Press C. et al, (2011), Biol Lett, 7, 457 - 460

• Automatic imitation.

  Heyes C., (2011), Psychol Bull, 137, 463 - 483

• Time course analyses confirm independence of imitative and spatial compatibility.

  Catmur C. and Heyes C., (2011), J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 37, 409 - 421

• Automatic imitation in dogs.

  Range F. et al, (2011), Proc Biol Sci, 278, 211 - 217

• Training social cognition: From imitation to Theory of Mind

  Santiesteban I. et al, (2011), Cognition

• Imitation in infancy: the wealth of the stimulus.

  Ray E. and Heyes C., (2011), Dev Sci, 14, 92 - 105

• Social attitudes modulate automatic imitation

  Leighton J. et al, (2010), Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 905 - 910

• Shaking hands: Priming by social action effects

  Flach R. et al, (2010), British Journal of Psychology, 101, 739 - 749

• Shaking hands: priming by social action effects.

  Flach R. et al, (2010), Br J Psychol, 101, 739 - 749

• Hand to mouth: automatic imitation across effector systems.

  Leighton J. and Heyes C., (2010), J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 36, 1174 - 1183

• Action preparation helps and hinders perception of action.

  Press C. et al, (2010), J Cogn Neurosci, 22, 2198 - 2211

• Acquisition of automatic imitation is sensitive to sensorimotor contingency.

  Cook R. et al, (2010), J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 36, 840 - 852

• Mesmerising mirror neurons.

  Heyes C., (2010), Neuroimage, 51, 789 - 791

• Where do mirror neurons come from?

  Heyes C., (2010), Neurosci Biobehav Rev, 34, 575 - 583

• 'Goals' are not an integral component of imitation.

  Leighton J. et al, (2010), Cognition, 114, 423 - 435

• Metamemory as evidence of animal consciousness: the type that does the trick.

  Shea N. and Heyes C., (2010), Biol Philos, 25, 95 - 110

• Imitation of lateralised body movements: doing it the hard way.

  Press C. et al, (2009), Laterality, 14, 515 - 527

• Evolution, development and intentional control of imitation.

  Heyes C., (2009), Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 364, 2293 - 2298

• Associative sequence learning: the role of experience in the development of imitation and the mirror system.

  Catmur C. et al, (2009), Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 364, 2369 - 2380

• Imitative pecking by budgerigars, Melopsittacus undulatus, over a 24 h delay

  Richards C. et al, (2009), Animal Behaviour, 77, 1111 - 1118

• Automatic imitation in budgerigars.

  Mui R. et al, (2008), Proc Biol Sci, 275, 2547 - 2553

• Through the looking glass: counter-mirror activation following incompatible sensorimotor learning.

  Catmur C. et al, (2008), Eur J Neurosci, 28, 1208 - 1215

• Experience-based priming of body parts: a study of action imitation.

  Gillmeister H. et al, (2008), Brain Res, 1217, 157 - 170

• Stimulus-driven selection of routes to imitation.

  Press C. and Heyes C., (2008), Exp Brain Res, 188, 147 - 152

• Automatic imitation of intransitive actions.

  Press C. et al, (2008), Brain Cogn, 67, 44 - 50

• Weak imitative performance is not due to a functional 'mirroring' deficit in adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders.

  Leighton J. et al, (2008), Neuropsychologia, 46, 1041 - 1049

• Visuotactile learning and body representation: an ERP study with rubber hands and rubber objects.

  Press C. et al, (2008), J Cogn Neurosci, 20, 312 - 323

• Imitation as a conjunction

  Heyes C., (2008), Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 28 - 29

• Intact automatic imitation of human and robot actions in autism spectrum disorders.

  Bird G. et al, (2007), Proc Biol Sci, 274, 3027 - 3031

• Sensorimotor experience enhances automatic imitation of robotic action.

  Press C. et al, (2007), Proc Biol Sci, 274, 2509 - 2514

• The discrimination of natural movement by budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulates) and pigeons (Columba livia).

  Mui R. et al, (2007), J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process, 33, 371 - 380

• General processes, rather than "goals," explain imitation errors.

  Bird G. et al, (2007), J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 33, 1158 - 1169

• Sensorimotor learning configures the human mirror system.

  Catmur C. et al, (2007), Curr Biol, 17, 1527 - 1531

• Bottom-up, not top-down, modulation of imitation by human and robotic models.

  Press C. et al, (2006), Eur J Neurosci, 24, 2415 - 2419

• Blind imitation in pigeons, Columba livia

  McGregor A. et al, (2006), Animal Behaviour, 72, 287 - 296

• The interaction between response effects during the acquisition of response priming.

  Flach R. et al, (2006), Acta Psychol (Amst), 122, 11 - 26

• Grasping the difference: What apraxia can tell us about theories of imitation - Reply to Goldenberg [3]

  Heyes C. and Brass M., (2006), Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10, 95 - 96

• Preschoolers' behavioural reenactment of "failed attempts": The roles of intention-reading, emulation and mimicry

  Huang CT. et al, (2006), Cognitive Development, 21, 36 - 45

• Robotic movement elicits automatic imitation.

  Press C. et al, (2005), Brain Res Cogn Brain Res, 25, 632 - 640

• Human and robotic action observation elicit automatic imitation

  Press C. et al, (2005), AISB'05 Convention: Social Intelligence and Interaction in Animals, Robots and Agents - Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, 105 - 108

• Imitation: is cognitive neuroscience solving the correspondence problem?

  Brass M. and Heyes C., (2005), Trends Cogn Sci, 9, 489 - 495

• Sequence learning by action, observation and action observation.

  Bird G. et al, (2005), Br J Psychol, 96, 371 - 388

• Sequence learning by action, observation and action observation

  Bird G. et al, (2005), British Journal of Psychology, 96, 371 - 388

• Action observation supports effector-dependent learning of finger movement sequences.

  Osman M. et al, (2005), Exp Brain Res, 165, 19 - 27

• Effector-dependent learning by observation of a finger movement sequence.

  Bird G. and Heyes C., (2005), J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 31, 262 - 275

• Experience modulates automatic imitation.

  Heyes C. et al, (2005), Brain Res Cogn Brain Res, 22, 233 - 240

• Spatial S-R compatibility effects in an intentional imitation task.

  Heyes C. and Ray E., (2004), Psychon Bull Rev, 11, 703 - 708

• Biofunctionalized, ultrathin coatings of cross-linked star-shaped poly(ethylene oxide) allow reversible folding of immobilized proteins.

  Groll J. et al, (2004), J Am Chem Soc, 126, 4234 - 4239

• Social learning and imitation: Introduction

  Galef BG. and Heyes CM., (2004), Learning and Behavior, 32, 1 - 3

• Budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) copy virtual demonstrators in a two-action test.

  Mottley K. and Heyes C., (2003), J Comp Psychol, 117, 363 - 370

• Four routes of cognitive evolution.

  Heyes C., (2003), Psychol Rev, 110, 713 - 727

• Testing for imitative and nonimitative social learning in the budgerigar using a two-object/two-action test

  Heyes C. and Saggerson A., (2002), Animal Behaviour, 64, 851 - 859

• Do rats in a two-action test encode movement egocentrically or allocentrically?

  Ray ED. and Heyes CM., (2002), Anim Cogn, 5, 245 - 252

• Rats smell: Odour-mediated local enhancement, in a vertical movement two-action test

  Campbell FM. and Heyes CM., (2002), Animal Behaviour, 63, 1055 - 1063

• Infants' behavioral reenactment of "failed attempts": exploring the roles of emulation learning, stimulus enhancement, and understanding of intentions.

  Huang CT. et al, (2002), Dev Psychol, 38, 840 - 855

• Social learning influences the preferences of domestic hens for novel food

  Sherwin CM. et al, (2002), Animal Behaviour, 63, 933 - 942

• Motor learning by observation: evidence from a serial reaction time task.

  Heyes CM. and Foster CL., (2002), Q J Exp Psychol A, 55, 593 - 607

• Distinguishing intention-sensitive from outcome-sensitive imitation

  Heyes CM. and Ray ED., (2002), Developmental Science, 5, 34 - 36

• Theory of mind and other domain-specific hypotheses

  Heyes CM., (2001), Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 1143 - 1145

• Causes and consequences of imitation.

  Heyes C., (2001), Trends Cogn Sci, 5, 253 - 261

• What Is the Significance of Imitation in Animals?

  Heyes CM. and Ray ED., (2000), Advances in the Study of Behavior, 29, 215 - 245

• Stimulus Enhancement: Controls for Social Facilitation and Local Enhancement

  Heyes CM. et al, (2000), Learning and Motivation, 31, 83 - 98

Recent Publications

• Imitation: Not in Our Genes.

  Heyes C., (2016), Curr Biol, 26, R412 - R414

• Blackboxing: social learning strategies and cultural evolution.

  Heyes C., (2016), Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 371

• Timecourse of mirror and counter-mirror effects measured with transcranial magnetic stimulation.

  Cavallo A. et al, (2014), Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci, 9, 1082 - 1088

• Neither Shaken nor Stirred: Reply to Bertenthal and Scheutz.

  Cooper RP. et al, (2013), Cogn Sci, 37, 642 - 645

• Are automatic imitation and spatial compatibility mediated by different processes?

  Cooper RP. et al, (2013), Cogn Sci, 37, 605 - 630