期刊
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
卷 14, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.609312
关键词
cognitive flexibility; visuomotor learning; Imitation; vicarious learning; mirror system; observational learning; social learning; prefrontal cortex
资金
- Imperial Open Access Fund
Observational learning is an important way for humans and animals to learn stimulus-response associations by observing others' behavior. It relies on individuals' ability to map others' actions into their own behaviors and process outcomes to achieve goals.
Humans and some animal species are able to learn stimulus-response (S-R) associations by observing others' behavior. It saves energy and time and avoids the danger of trying the wrong actions. Observational learning (OL) depends on the capability of mapping the actions of others into our own behaviors, processing outcomes, and combining this knowledge to serve our goals. Observational learning plays a central role in the learning of social skills, cultural knowledge, and tool use. Thus, it is one of the fundamental processes in which infants learn about and from adults (Byrne and Russon, 1998). In this paper, we review current methodological approaches employed in observational learning research. We highlight the important role of the prefrontal cortex and cognitive flexibility to support this learning process, develop a new neural working model of observational learning, illustrate how imitation relates to observational learning, and provide directions for future research.
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