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Overview

Cecilia Heyes is a researcher affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their academic work focuses primarily on the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with substantial contributions to Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Cultural Studies, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The research topics covered by Heyes span a range of areas related to cognitive and social processes. Key topics include:

  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Language and cultural evolution
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

Heyes has published frequently in several academic venues. Notable publication venues include:

  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Current Biology
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Their recent papers demonstrate engagement with both theoretical and experimental aspects of cognitive science and social psychology. Recent publications include:

  • What Happened to Mirror Neurons? (2021), Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Knowing Ourselves Together: The Cultural Origins of Metacognition (2020), Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Rethinking Norm Psychology (2023), Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • The cultural evolution of cultural evolution (2021), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Mnemicity: A Cognitive Gadget? (2023), Perspectives on Psychological Science

Heyes frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Philip R. Corlett, Daniel Yon, Chris Frith, Stephen M. Fleming, and Clare Press. These collaborations span multiple scientific investigations and foster interdisciplinary approaches across cognition and psychology.

Best Publications

  • Theory of mind in nonhuman primates.

    C. M. Heyes

  • SOCIAL LEARNING IN ANIMALS : CATEGORIES AND MECHANISMS

    C. M. Heyes

  • Social learning in animals : the roots of culture

    Cecilia M. Heyes;Bennett G. Galef

  • Imitation: is cognitive neuroscience solving the correspondence problem?

    Marcel Brass;Cecilia M. Heyes

  • Causes and consequences of imitation.

    Cecilia Heyes

  • Sensorimotor learning configures the human mirror system.

    Caroline Catmur;Vincent Walsh;Cecilia Heyes

  • Where do mirror neurons come from

    Cecilia Heyes

  • Mirror neurons: from origin to function

    Richard Cook;Geoffrey Bird;Caroline Catmur;Clare Press

  • Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking

    Cecilia Heyes

  • Imitation, culture and cognition

    C.M. Heyes

  • What's social about social learning?

    Cecilia Heyes

  • Automatic imitation.

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  • The cultural evolution of mind reading

    Cecilia M. Heyes;Chris D. Frith

  • Supra-personal cognitive control and metacognition

    Nicholas Shea;Annika Boldt;Dan Bang;Nick Yeung

  • False belief in infancy: a fresh look.

    Cecilia Heyes

  • Imitation in infancy: the wealth of the stimulus.

    Elizabeth Ray;Cecilia Heyes

  • Submentalizing: I Am Not Really Reading Your Mind.

    Cecilia Heyes

  • Associative sequence learning: the role of experience in the development of imitation and the mirror system.

    Caroline Catmur;Vincent Walsh;Cecilia Heyes

  • Experience modulates automatic imitation

    Cecilia Heyes;Geoffrey Bird;Helen Johnson;Patrick Haggard

  • Intact automatic imitation of human and robot actions in autism spectrum disorders.

    Geoffrey Bird;Jane Leighton;Clare Press;Cecilia Heyes

  • Anecdotes, training, trapping and triangulating: do animals attribute mental states?

    C.M. Heyes

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoffrey Bird
Geoffrey Bird University of Oxford
Caroline Catmur
Caroline Catmur King's College London
Anthony Dickinson
Anthony Dickinson University of Cambridge
Chris D. Frith
Chris D. Frith University College London
John M. Pearce
John M. Pearce Cardiff University
CM Sherwin
CM Sherwin University of Bristol
Tony Charman
Tony Charman King's College London
Marcel Brass
Marcel Brass Ghent University
Ludwig Huber
Ludwig Huber University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Christine J Nicol
Christine J Nicol Royal Veterinary College

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