Automatic Imitation

About

Oliver Genschow is a Professor for Cognitive Social and Economic Psychology at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg (Germany). In his research he investigates interaction patterns among humans with a strong focus on perception-action coupling including person perception imitation  and anticipated action. He applies a multi-method approach to study processes underlying automatic imitation by combining measures from social and cognitive psychology. In his role as editor of the German In-Mind magazine version Oliver Genschow disseminates psychological research to a lay audience. Emiel Cracco is a senior postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology at Ghent University (Belgium). In his research he studies action perception and imitation from a cognitive neuroscience perspective combining behavioral methods with neuroscientific methods such as TMS EEG and fMRI. In 2022 he was awarded the Early Career Award of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience in recognition of his work.