Code
01D01122
Duration
01 October 2022 → 31 October 2022
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Learning and behaviour
- Social behaviour and social action
- Social perception and cognition
- Disabilities and developmental disorders
Keywords
Imitation
Social cognition
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Project description
Evidence on social modulation of imitation is mixed and inconclusive, due to the absence of a strong theoretical framework and low ecological validity of previous studies. With this project, we aim to resolve both issues, by combining a functional-cognitive framework with an ecologically valid virtual-reality task, to investigate social modulation of imitation in individuals with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder.