Jane Leighton
University College London
8 Papers
74 Citations
Jane Leighton is an academic researcher from University College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Imitation & Body movement. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 8 publications.
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Papers
Intact automatic imitation of human and robot actions in autism spectrum disorders.
TL;DR: An automatic imitation paradigm was used to assess the imitative ability of 16 adults with ASD and 16 non-autistic matched control participants, and the ASD group showed an automatic imitation effect and a larger animacy bias than the Control group.
Hand to Mouth: Automatic Imitation across Effector Systems.
Jane Leighton,Cecilia Heyes +1 more
TL;DR: It is indicated that automatic imitation is partially effector dependent and therefore that the effector dependence of intentional imitation reflects, at least in part, the nature of the mechanisms that mediate visuomotor translation for imitation.
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Weak imitative performance is not due to a functional 'mirroring' deficit in adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
TL;DR: Adult with ASD were as impaired on each non-imitative version of the task as they were on the imitative version, suggesting that the impaired performance on the imitation task was not due to a functional mirroring deficit.
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'Goals' are not an integral component of imitation.
TL;DR: The results support generalist theories of imitation by showing that the colour minimum error pattern is due, not to intention reading, but to the operation of task-general processes of perception, attention and motor control.
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