Ferrari Pier Francesco, Paukner Annika, Ruggiero Angela, Darcey Lisa, Unbehagen Sarah, Suomi Stephen J
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, USA.
Child Dev. 2009 Jul-Aug;80(4):1057-68. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01316.x.
The capacity to imitate facial gestures is highly variable in rhesus macaques and this variability may be related to differences in specific neurobehavioral patterns of development. This study evaluated the differential neonatal imitative response of 41 macaques in relation to the development of sensory, motor, and cognitive skills throughout the 1st month of life. The results show that infants who imitate facial gestures display more developed skills in goal-directed movements (reaching-grasping and fine hand motor control) than nonimitators. These differences might reflect, at least in part, the differential maturation of motor chains in the parietal and motor cortices, which partly overlap with those of the mirror neuron system. Thus, neonatal imitation appears to be a predictor of future neurobehavioral development.
恒河猴模仿面部手势的能力差异很大，这种差异可能与特定神经行为发育模式的不同有关。本研究评估了41只猕猴在出生后第1个月内，其新生儿模仿反应与感觉、运动和认知技能发展之间的差异。结果表明，与非模仿者相比，模仿面部手势的婴儿在目标导向运动（伸手抓握和精细手部运动控制）方面表现出更发达的技能。这些差异可能至少部分反映了顶叶和运动皮层中运动链的不同成熟度，而这些运动链部分与镜像神经元系统的运动链重叠。因此，新生儿模仿似乎是未来神经行为发育的一个预测指标。
