{"id":7216,"date":"2019-05-22T15:54:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/active_intermodal_matching_-aim\/"},"modified":"2019-07-12T14:42:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T14:42:28","slug":"active_intermodal_matching_-aim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/active_intermodal_matching_-aim\/","title":{"rendered":"Active intermodal matching (AIM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This concept pertains to <a href=\"http:\/\/mirrorneurons.free.fr\/Meltzoff_Like%20Me%20Hypothesis.pdf\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/mirrorneurons.free.fr\/Meltzoff_Like%20Me%20Hypothesis.pdf&amp;target=_self\">Meltzoff and Moore<\/a>&#8216;s proposed mechanism for facial imitation. \u00a0Facial imitation involves intermodal matching because the infant sees the adult&#8217;s gesture, but does not see his own response as his own face remains unseen by him. \u00a0Facial imitation thus requires matching across different sensory modalities (hence &#8216;intermodal&#8217;). \u00a0It is &#8216;active&#8217; because infants correct and improve their responses over successive attempts; the responses do not simply pop out fully formed.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"common_coding\">Common coding<\/a>, <a href=\"cross-modal_coordination\">Cross-modal coordination<\/a>, <a href=\"cross-modal_matching\">Cross-modal matching<\/a>, <a href=\"imitation\">Imitation<\/a>, <a href=\"intermodal_coordination\">Intermodal coordination<\/a>, <a href=\"intermodal_perception\">Intermodal perception<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/intersensory_redundancy_hypothesis\/\">Intersensory redundancy hypothesis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This concept pertains to Meltzoff and Moore&#8216;s proposed mechanism for facial imitation. \u00a0Facial imitation involves intermodal matching because the infant sees the adult&#8217;s gesture, but does not see his own response as his own face remains unseen by him. \u00a0Facial imitation thus requires matching across different sensory modalities (hence &#8216;intermodal&#8217;). \u00a0It is &#8216;active&#8217; because infants &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/active_intermodal_matching_-aim\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Active intermodal matching (AIM)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9579,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216\/revisions\/9579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}