Abstract
The mirror neuron system has dominated understanding of observational learning from a cognitive neuroscience perspective. Our review highlights the value of observational learning frameworks that integrate a more diverse and distributed set of cognitive and brain systems, including those implicated in sensorimotor transformations, as well as in more general processes such as executive control, reward, and social cognition. We argue that understanding how observational learning occurs in the real world will require neuroscientific frameworks that consider how visuomotor processes interface with more general aspects of cognition, as well as how learning context and action complexity shape mechanisms supporting learning from watching others.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 478-491 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Trends in Neurosciences |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| Early online date | 23 Feb 2021 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jun 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Copyright the Author(s) 2021. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.Keywords
- observational learning
- human mirror neuron system
- motor learning
- motor system
- social cognition
- reward
- real-world neuroscience