Conscious Mimicry

Fairness modulates non-conscious facial mimicry in women.

In societies with high cooperation demands, implicit consensus on social norms enables successful human coexistence. Mimicking other people's actions and emotions has been proposed as a means to synchronize behaviour, thereby enhancing affiliation. Mimicry has long been thought to be reflexive, but it has recently been suggested that mimicry might also be motivationally driven. Here, we show du...

The Moody Chameleon: the Effect of Mood on Non–conscious Mimicry

Mahnob Hmi Ibug Mimicry Database (mhi-mimicry)

The experiments from which this database contains the recordings, were conducted with the aim of the analysis of human interaction, in particular mimicry, and elaborate on the theoretical hypotheses of the relationship between the occurrence of mimicry and human affect. The recorded experiments are designed to explore this relationship. The corpus is recorded with 18 synchronised audio and vide...

Molecular mimicry

EditoriAL EditoriAL Over the course of evolution, microorganisms have developed innovative survival strategies to thrive in their hosts. 1 The human body is home to many species of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other invertebrate parasites. Some of these organisms that live and thrive in humans are com-mensals and are harmless. They may be also beneficial to the host as they provide certain nut...

Vocal mimicry

Are there any aspects of biology that you feel are neglected? I would say systematics. A field that clearly doesn’t get the credit it deserves. Without having a firm understanding of species boundaries and how things are related to each other, doing comparative biology is impossible. Perhaps it stems from my fascination with 8– 9th century zoology, but I find it a very interesting subject in it...