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Mirror neurons and imitation

Thanks for the quick correction on the imitation articlediff. If I understand correctly fMRI can only find evidence of neural correlates for behaviour. What further studies would be needed to establish whether, or not, mirror neurons are active in actual human learning? ----Action potential ^{t c} 09:45, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

My comment was just on the Iacoboni paper which involved imitation but not learning. There are other fMRI studies, e.g. Buccino et al, Neuron, 2004, which do look specifically at learning by imitation. AFdeCH 13:38, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

MNS and EP-M

Thanks for the fix to Autism #Pathophysiology's discussion of the MNS theory of autism. I noticed that the change downplayed Hamilton 2008 (PMID 18038342), in the sense that it removed all discussion of the EP-M theory, replacing the discussion with the relatively uninformative statement "the MNS hypothesis of autism has been criticised". I took the liberty of changing the statement to the more-specific "the MNS theory does not explain the normal performance of autistic children on imitation tasks that involve a goal or object", which I hope accurately captures the main thrust of Hamilton's criticism. However, I'm wondering why it's not appropriate to discuss the EP-M model in Autism? Is EP-M still too bleeding-edge or controversial or not-yet-widespread or something like that? Eubulides (talk) 20:38, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I thought EP-M was too new to feature prominently. But it may become more widely recognised soon. AFdeCH (talk) 16:04, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Goals, intentions and mental states

I just now read Hamilton's recently published research review (PMID 19508497) on goals, intentions, and mental states in autism, and attempted to summarize it with an edit to Wikipedia's Autism article. I would welcome your further comments or improvements to the article. Eubulides (talk) 23:58, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

That is great. I just clarified a bit AFdeCH (talk) 20:33, 22 July 2009 (UTC)