Could seeing themselves in a mirror help babies copy others?

MedicalXpress | 六月 17, 2026

A new study has assessed whether exposure to their own reflection influences the development of facial mimicry, a process associated with empathy and emotion recognition, in 4-month-old infants. The results showed that infants exposed to their own reflection showed greater increases in sensorimotor cortex activity when observing others' facial expressions, but this did not translate into increased facial copying behavior.