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• Flach, R., Press, C., Badet, A., & Heyes, C. M. (in press). Shaking hands: priming by social effects. British Journal of Psychology.
   
• Leighton, J., Bird, G., Orsini, C. & Heyes, C. M. (in press). Social attitudes modulate automatic imitation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
   
• Leighton, J. & Heyes, C. M. (in press).  Hand to mouth: Automatic imitation across effector systems. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
   
• Range, F., Huber, L. & Heyes, C. M. (in press) Automatic imitation in dogs. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: B
   
• Ray, E. D. & Heyes, C. M. (in press)  Imitation in infancy: The wealth of the stimulus.  Developmental Science.
   
• Catmur, C., & Heyes, C. M. (in press)  Time course analyses confirm the independence of imitative and spatial compatibility. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
   
• Cook, R., Press, C., Dickinson, A. & Heyes, C. M. (in press) The acquisition of automatic imitation is sensitive to sensorimotor contingency? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
   
• Catmur, C., Mars, R., Rushworth, M. & Heyes, C.M. (under review)  Making mirrors: premotor cortex stimulation enhances mirror and counter-mirror facilitation.
   

• Gillmeister, H. & Heyes, C. M. (under review) Actions speak louder than words: comparing automatic imitation and verbal command.
   

• Heyes, C. M. (under review)  What can imitation do for cooperation?  In B. Calcott, R. Joyce & K. Stereiny (Eds.)  Signalling, Commitment and Emotion.  MIT Press.
   

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    Edited Books / Special Issues

• Heyes, C. M., Huber, L., Gergely, G. & Brass, M. Eds, (2009)  Evolution, development and intentional control of imitation.  Theme Issue,  Philosphical Transactions of the Royal Society B,  Biological Sciences. 364 (1528)
   

• Galef, B. G. & Heyes, C. H. Eds (2004) Special issue on Social learning in animals. Learning & Behavior, 32, 1-140.

• Heyes, C. M. & Huber, L. Eds. (2001) Evolution of Cognition. MIT Press. Pp. 400.
   
• Heyes, C. M. & Hull, D.Eds. (2001) Selection Theory and Social Construction: The Evolutionary Naturalistic Epistemology of Donald T. Campbell. SUNY Press. Pp. 200.
   
• Heyes, C. M. & Galef, B. G. Eds. (1996) Social Learning and the Roots of Culture. Academic Press. Pp. 411.

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    Book Chapters

• Heyes, C. M. (2008) Beast machines? Questions of animal consciousness. In M. Davies & L. Weiskrantz (Eds.) Frontiers of Consciousness. Oxford University Press.

• Bird, G. & Heyes, C. M. (2007) Imitation: thoughts about theories. In K. Dautenhahn & C. Nehaniv (Eds.) Models and Mechanisms of Imitation and Social Learning in Robots, Humans and Animals. Cambridge University Press.

• Heyes, C. M. & Bird, G. (2007) Mirroring, association and the correspondence problem. In P. Haggard, Y. Rossetti & M. Kawato (Eds.) Sensorimotor Foundations of Higher Cognition, Attention & Performance XX. Oxford University Press.

• Papineau, D. & Heyes, C. M. (2006) Rational or associative? Imitation in Japanese quail. In M. Nudds & S. Hurley (Eds.) Rational Animals. Oxford University Press

• Heyes, C. M. (2005) Imitation by association. In S. Hurley & N. Chater (Eds.) Perspectives on Imitation: From Mirror Neurons to Memes. MIT Press

• Heyes, C. M. (2002) Transformational and associative theories of imitation. In K. Dautenhahn & C. Nehaniv (Eds.) Imitation in Animals and Artifacts. MIT Press. Pp 501-523

• Heyes, C. M. (2001) Evolutionary psychology in the round. In C. M. Heyes & L. Huber (Eds.) Evolution of Cognition. MIT Press. Pp 1-21

• Heyes, C. M. (2001) Introduction. In Heyes, C. M. & Hull, D. L. (Eds.) Selection Theory and Social Construction: The Evolutionary Naturalistic Epistemology of Donald T. Campbell. SUNY Press. Pp 1-14

• Caporael, L. & Heyes, C. M. (1996) Why anthropomorphize? Folk psychology and other stories. In R. W. Mitchell, N. Thompson & L. Miles (Eds.) Anthropomorphism, Anecdotes and Animals. SUNY Press. Pp. 59-74

• Heyes, C. M. (1996) Genuine imitation. In C. Heyes & B. G. Galef (Eds.) Social Learning and the Roots of Culture. Academic Press. Pp. 371-389

• Heyes, C. M. (1996) Identifying and defining imitation. In C. Heyes & B. G. Galef (Eds.) Social Learning and the Roots of Culture. Academic Press. Pp. 211-220

• Heyes, C. M. (1994) Imitation and culture: longevity, fecundity and fidelity in social transmission. In B. Galef, M. Mainardi & P. Valsecchi & M. Mainardi (Eds.) Behavioral Aspects of Feeding. Harwood. Pp. 271-287

• Heyes, C. M. (1994) Social cognition in primates. In N. J. Mackintosh (Ed.) Handbook of Perception and Cognition, Vol. 9. Academic Press. Pp. 281-305

• Heyes, C. M. (1989) Uneasy chapters in the relationship between psychology and epistemology. In B. Gholson, A. Houts, R. Neimeyer & W. Shadish (Eds.), Psychology of Science. Cambridge University Press. Pp. 115-137

• Heyes, C. M. & Plotkin, H. C. (1988) Replicators and interactors in cultural evolution. In M. Ruse (Ed.), What the Philosophy of Biology Is. Kluwer. Pp. 139-162.

• Heyes, C. M. (1987) Cognisance of consciousness in the study of animal knowledge. In W. Callebaut & R. Pinxten (Eds.), Evolutionary Epistemology: A Multiparadigm Program. Reidl. Pp. 105-136.

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    Journal Articles

• Heyes, C. M. (2010) Where do mirror neurons come from?  Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews, 34, 575-583.
   
• Heyes, C. M. (2010)  Mesmerising mirror neurons. NeuroImage, 51, 789-791.
   
• Leighton, J., Bird, G. & Heyes, C. M. (2010) 'Goals' are not an integral component of imitation.  Cognition, 114, 423-435
   
• Press, C., Gherri, E., Heyes, C., M. & Eimer, M. (2010) Action preparation helps and hinders perception of action. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 2198-2211.
   
• Shea, N., & Heyes, C. M., (2010) Metamemory as evidence of animal consciousness: The type that does the trick. Biology and Philosophy, 25, 95-110
   
• Catmur, C., Walsh & Heyes, C. M. (2009).  The role of experience in the development of imitation and the mirror system.  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 364, 2369 - 2380.
   
• Heyes, C. M. (2009) Evolution, development and intentional control of imitation.  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 364, 2293 - 2298
   
• Press, C., Ray, E. D., & Heyes, C. M. (2009)  Imitation of lateralised body movements: Doing it the hard way.  Laterality, 14, 515 -527
   
• Richards, C., Mottley, K., Pearce, J. M. & Heyes, C. M. (2009) Imitative pecking in budgerigars over a 24 hour delay.  Animal Behaviour, 77, 1111-1118.

• Catmur, C., Gillmeister, H., Bird, G., Liepelt, R., Brass, M. & Heyes, C. (2008) Through the looking glass: counter-mirror activation following incompatible sensorimotor learning. Featured article in European Journal of Neuroscience, 28(6), 1208-1215

• Gillmeister, H., Catmur, C., Liepelt, R., Brass, M. & Heyes, C. M. (2008) Experience-based priming of body parts: A study of imitation and the mirror system. Brain Research, 1217, 157-170

• Heyes, C. M. (2008) Imitation as a conjunction: Commentary on Susan Hurley's 'The Shared Circuits Model'. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 31, 28-29.

• Leighton, J., Bird, G., Charman, T. & Heyes, C. M. (2008) Weak imitative performance is not due to a mirroring deficit in adults with autism spectrum disorders. Neuropsychologia, 46, 1041-1049
   
• Mui, R., Hazelgrove, M., Pearce, J. M. & Heyes, C.M. (2008) Automatic imitation in budgerigars. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: B. 275,2547-2553

• Press, C., Bird, G., Walsh, E. & Heyes, C. M. (2008) Automatic imitation of intransitive actions. Brain & Cognition, 67, 44-50

• Press, C. & Heyes, C. M. (2008) Stimulus-driven selection of routes to imitation. Experimental Brain Research, 188, 147-152

• Press, C., Heyes, C. M., Haggard, P. & Eimer, M. (2008). Visuotactile learning and body representation: an ERP study with rubber hands and rubber objects. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 312-323

• Bird, G., Brindley, R., Leighton, J. & Heyes, C. M. (2007) General processes, rather than 'goals', explain imitation errors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 33, 1158-1169

• Bird, G., Leighton, J., Press, C. & Heyes, C. M. (2007) Intact automatic imitation of human and robot actions in autism spectrum disorders. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: B., 274, 3027-3031

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

• Mui, R., Hazelgrove, M., McGregor, A., Futter, J., Heyes, C. M. & Pearce, J. M. (2007) The discrimination of biological motion by budgerigars and pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 33, 371-380.

• 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

• Flach, R., Osman, M., Dickinson, A. & Heyes, C. M. (2006) The interaction between response effects during acquisition of response priming. Acta Psychologica, 122, 11-26

• Heyes, C. M. & Brass, M. (2006) Grasping the difference: What apraxia can tell us about theories of imitation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10, 95-96

• Huang, C-T., Heyes, C. M. & Charman, T. (2006) Preschoolers' behavioral reenactment of 'failed attempts': the roles of intention-reading, emulation and mimicry. Cognitive Development, 21, 36-45

• McGregor, A., Saggerson, A., Pearce, J. & Heyes, C. M. (2006) Blind imitation in pigeons (Columba livia). Animal Behaviour, 72, 287-296

•  Press, C., Gillmeister, H. & Heyes, C. M. (2006) Bottom-up, not top-down, modulation of imitation by human and robotic models. European Journal of Neuroscience, 24, 2415-2419

• Bird, G. & Heyes, C. M. (2005) Effector-dependent learning by observation of a finger movement sequence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31, 262-275

• Bird, G., Osman, M., Saggerson, A. & Heyes, C. M. (2005) Sequence learning by action, observation, and action observation. British Journal of Psychology, 96, 1-19

• Brass, M. & Heyes, C. M. (2005) Imitation: Is cognitive neuroscience solving the correspondence problem? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 489-495
   
• Heyes, C. M., Bird, G., Johnson, H. & Haggard, P. (2005) Experience modulates automatic imitation. Cognitive Brain Research, 22, 233-240

• Press, C., Bird, G. Flach, R. & Heyes, C. M. (2005) Robotic movement elicits automatic imitation. Cognitive Brain Research, 25, 632-640

• Osman, M., Bird, G. and Heyes, C. M. (2005) Action observation supports effector-dependent learning of finger movement sequences. Experimental Brain Research, 165, 19-27

• Heyes, C. M. & Ray, E. D. (2004) Spatial S-R compatibility effects in an intentional imitation task. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 703-705

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

• Mottley, K. & Heyes, C. M. (2003) Budgerigars copy 'virtual' demonstrators in a two-action test. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 117, 363-370

• Campbell, F. M. & Heyes, C. M. (2002) Rats smell: Odour-mediated local enhancement in a vertical movement two-action test. Animal Behaviour, 63, 1055-1063

• Heyes, C. M. & Foster, C. (2002) Motor learning by observation: Evidence from a serial reaction time task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 55A, 593-607

• Heyes, C. M. & Ray, E. D. (2002) Distinguishing intention-sensitive from outcome-sensitive imitation. Developmental Science, 5, 34-36

• Heyes, C. M. & Saggerson, A. (2002) Testing for imitative and non-imitative social learning in the budgerigar using a two-object / two-action test. Animal Behaviour, 64, 851-859

• Huang, C-T, Heyes, C. M. & Charman, T. (2002) Infants' behavioral re-enactment of 'failed attempts': Exploring the roles of emulation learning, stimulus enhancement and understanding of intentions. Developmental Psychology, 38, 840-855

• Ray, E. D. & Heyes, C. M. (2002) Do rats in a two-action test encode movement egocentrically or allocentrically? Animal Cognition, 5, 245-252

• Sherwin, C. M., Heyes, C. M. & Nicol, C. J. (2002) Social learning influences the preferences of domestic hens for novel food. Animal Behaviour, 63, 933-942

• Heyes, C. M. (2001) Causes and consequences of imitation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5, 253-261

• Heyes, C. M. (2001) Theory of mind and other domain-specific hypotheses. Author's Response to Continuing Commentary. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 1140-1145

• Heyes, C. M. (2000) We're all nativists now. Review of J. Nadel and G. Butterworth 'Imitation in infancy'. Contemporary Psychology: The APA Review of Books, 45, 398-400

• Heyes, C. M. & Ray, E. (2000) What is the significance of imitation in animals? Advances in the Study of Behavior, 29, 215-245

• Heyes, C. M., Ray, E., Mitchell, C. & Nokes, T. (2000) Stimulus enhancement in rats: Controls for social facilitation and local enhancement. Learning and Motivation, 31, 83-98

• Ray, E. D., Gardner, M. R. & Heyes, C. M. (2000) Seeing how it's done: Matching conditions for observer rats in the bidirectional control. Animal Cognition, 3, 147-157

• Campbell, F., Heyes, C. M. & Goldsmith, A. (1999) Simultaneous stimulus and response learning by observation in the European starling using a two-object / two-action. Animal Behaviour, 58, 151-158

• Gardner, M. R. & Heyes, C. M. (1999) Splitting, lumping and priming. Commentary on Byrne & Russon. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 690-691

• Heyes, C. M. & Galef, B. G. (1999) Introduction to the Napoli Social Learning conference. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 11, 73-92

• Mitchell, C. J., Heyes, C. M., Gardner, M. R. & Dawson, G. R. (1999) Limitations of a bidirectional control procedure for the investigation of imitation in rats: odour cues on the manipulandum. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 52 B, 193-202

• Heyes, C. M. (1998) Liberalism, chauvanism and experimental thought. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 134-148

• Heyes, C. M. (1998) Theory of mind in nonhuman primates. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 101-114

• Campbell, D. T., Heyes, C. M. & Frankel, B. (1997) From evolutionary epistemology via selection theory to a sociology of scientific validity. Evolution and Cognition, 3, 5-38

• Heyes, C. M. (1997) A tribute to Donald T. Campbell. Biology and Philosophy, 12, 299-301

• Heyes. C.M. (1996). Imagination and imitation: Input, acid test or alchemy? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19, 131-132.

• Heyes, C. M. (1996) Self-recognition in primates: Irreverence, irrelevance and irony. Animal Behaviour, 51, 470-473
   
• Mitchell, C. & Heyes, C. M. (1996) Simultaneous potentiation and overshadowing of taste and contextual cues by a second taste in toxicosis conditioning. Learning & Motivation, 27, 58-72

• Reed, P., Skiera, F., Adams, L. & Heyes, C. M. (1996) Effects of isolation rearing and mirror exposure on social and asocial discrimination performance. Learning and Motivation, 27, 113-129

• Heyes, C. M. & Dickinson, A. (1995) Folk psychology won't go away. Mind and Language, 10, 329-332

• Heyes, C. M. (1995) Imitation and flattery. Animal Behaviour, 50, 1421-1424

• Heyes, C. M. (1995) Knowing minds. Review of S. Baron-Cohen ‘Mindblindness', and D. Byrne `The Thinking Ape'. Nature, 375. 290

• Heyes, C. M. (1995) Self-recognition in primates: Further reflections create a hall of mirrors. Animal Behaviour, 50, 1533-1542

• Chater, N. & Heyes, C. M. (1994) Animal concepts: content and discontent. Mind and Language, 9, 209-246

• Heyes, C. M. (1994) Cues, convergence and a curmudgeon. Animal Behaviour, 48, 242-244

• Heyes, C. M. (1994) Imitation and self-consciousness in animals: Finding fault with folklore. Vesmir, 73, 517-523

• Heyes, C. M. (1994) Reflections on self-recognition in primates. Animal Behaviour, 47, 909-919

• Heyes, C. M. (1994) Social learning in animals: Categories and mechanisms. Biological Reviews, 69, 207-231

• Heyes, C. M. & German, T. (1994) Eye-to-eye but not a meeting of minds. Current Psychology of Cognition, 13, 607-614

• Heyes, C. M., Jaldow, E. & Dawson, G. R. (1994) Imitation in rats: conditions of occurrence in a bidirectional control paradigm. Learning and Motivation, 25, 276-287

• Heyes, C. M., Jaldow, E., Nokes, T. & Dawson, G. R. (1994). Imitation in rats: The role of demonstrator action. Behavioural Processes, 32, 173-182

• Furnham, A. & Heyes, C. M. (1993) Psychology students' beliefs about animals and animal experimentation. Personality & Individual Differences, 15, 1-10.

• Heyes, C. M. (1993) Anecdotes, training, trapping and triangulating: Can animals attribute mental states? Animal Behaviour, 46, 177-188

• Heyes, C. M. (1993) Imitation, culture and cognition. Animal Behaviour, 46, 999-1010.

• Heyes, C. M. (1993) Imitation without perspective-taking. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16, 524-525

• Heyes, C. M., Jaldow, E. & Dawson, G. (1993) Observational extinction: observation of non-reinforced responding reduces resistance to extinction in rats. Animal Learning and Behaviour, 21, 221-225

• Dawson, G. R., Heyes, C. M. & Iversen, S. (1992) Pharmacological mechanisms and animal models of cognition. Behavioural Pharmacology, 3, 285-297

• Heyes, C. M., Dawson, G. R. & Nokes, T. (1992) Imitation in rats: initial responding and transfer evidence. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 45B, 81-92

• Heyes, C. M. (1991) Who's the horse? Social Epistemology, 5, 231-240.

• Heyes, C. M. (1990) Review of A. Montefiore and D. Noble (Eds.), `Goals, no-goals and own goals: a debate on goal-directed and intentional behaviour'. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 42B, 331-341

• Heyes, C. M. (1990) Review of L. D. Smith `Logical positivism and behaviorism: a reassessment of the alliance'. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 41B, 325-327

• Heyes, C. M. & Dawson, G. R. (1990) A demonstration of observational learning using a bidirectional control. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 42B, 59-71

• Heyes, C. M. & Dickinson, A. (1990) The intentionality of animal action. Mind and Language, 5, 87-104

• Heyes, C. M. & Durlach, P. J. (1990) Social blockade of taste-aversion learning in rats: is it a social phenomenon? Journal of Comparative Psychology, 104, 82-87

• Heyes, C. M. (1988) Are scientists the agents in scientific change? Biology and Philosophy, 3, 194-199.

• Heyes, C. M. (1988) The distant blast of Lloyd Morgan's Canon. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 11, 256-257.

• Heyes, C. M. (1987) Contrasting approaches to the legitimation of intentional language within comparative psychology. Behaviorism, 15, 41-50.

• Heyes, C. M. (1985) Evolutionaire kennistheorie. Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie, 47, 357-360.

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