Cecilia Heyes

Senior Research Fellow in Theoretical Life Sciences
Professor of Psychology
All Souls College & Dept of Experimental Psychology
 University of Oxford

 

Address:  All Souls College, Oxford, OX1 4AL

Phone:     +44 (0)1865 279394

Email:      cecilia.heyes@all-souls.ox.ac.uk

photography by Robert Taylor
www.taylor-photo.co.uk

My work concerns the evolution of cognition. It explores the ways in which natural selection, learning, developmental and cultural processes combine to produce the mature cognitive abilities found in adult humans. I am especially interested in social cognition, and for some years my principal focus has been
imitation.

     Some Publications

• Heyes, C. M. (2010)  Where do mirror neurons come from?  Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews, 34, 575-583

• Press, C., Gillmeister, H. & Heyes, C. M. (2007) Sensorimotor experience enhances automatic imitation of robotic actions. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: B, 274, 2509-2514

• Catmur, C., Walsh, V. & Heyes, C. M. (2007) Sensorimotor learning configures the human mirror system. Current Biology, 17, 1527-1531

• Brass, M. & Heyes, C. M. (2005) Imitation: Is cognitive neuroscience solving the correspondence problem? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 489-495

• Heyes, C. M. (2003) Four routes of cognitive evolution. Psychological Review, 110, 713-727