Sentence examples for imitation of action from inspiring English sources

That sounds persuasive, particularly if you know that Mr. Mamet is echoing Aristotle's idea that tragedy is an imitation of action rather than of character.

In addition, even if the existence of the mirror-neuron system (MNS) in humans is still controversial, the IFG is also considered to be part of such a system, since these regions are often activated during action observation, motor learning and imitation of action [25].

The first is the imitation of actions for which the observer can identify a goal and possesses a template in the long-term memory; this activates the supplementary motor area, the orbitofrontal cortex and the left inferior parietal lobule.

For example, Fink et al. [41] point out that the pars opercularis of the IFG has been shown to be activated during the observation and recognition of actions performed by others [42] and in the observation and subsequent imitation of actions [43].

MNS is comprised of 'mirror neurons', specialised neurons which fire when one observes another performing an action and when one executes the action, facilitating an understanding of the action and subsequent imitation of that action.

This also conforms to Aristotle's definition of theatre as "an imitation of an action"—i.e., not the action itself.

Whereas the plots of some of Mr. le Carré's recent novels have felt like bad imitations of action-adventure thrillers, the suspense in "Our Kind of Traitor" is genuine and nerve-racking, as he tracks the efforts of Gail and Perry and Luke to negotiate a deal between Dima and the intelligence service, and then to get Dima and his family safely home to England.

"The imitation of an action", is what Aristotle called tragedy.

Another rise in the UK's manufacturing PMI helped sterling to recover some of its losses, and while the move this morning has garnered plenty of attention it is a pale imitation of the action seen in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote.

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Recent computational approaches to action imitation have advocated the use of hierarchical representations in the perception and imitation of demonstrated actions.