Sentence examples for imitation of expression from inspiring English sources

"Blackhat," filmed in significant measure on location in Hong Kong (and depicting events in China, even if not filmed there), plays like a party convention in a one-party state or a news report in a government paper — something that is not an expression but an imitation of expression that fills public life in a censorious regime.

The purpose of our task was to look at explicit facial emotion expression ability without any influence of felt emotional valence or imitation of facial expressions.

This region has been shown to be involved in execution, observation and imitation of facial expressions [22], [53], [54].

The role of the MNS in social cognition is also supported by studies in patients with autism, who show a reduced recruitment of the MNS, and in particular of the IFG, during observation and imitation of facial expressions [25].

Differences in amygdala activity in reaction to emotional stimuli are associated with differences in imitation of emotional expressions, memory of emotional events, and social behavior (Decety 2010; Hare et al. 2008; Hariri and Holmes 2006; Pfeifer et al. 2008).

"She said, 'Really,' " Khairi said, lifting his eyebrows in an imitation of a skeptical expression.

This imitation of an embryonic expression pattern might be important for structural and functional reorganization following brain injury.

In the arching and shaking of their chests, the imitation of animals, and the expression of pride and belonging, there is the unmistakable influence of the dances some Ugandan teenage boys perform at their circumcision and passage into manhood.There are seven men, from different backgrounds and parts of Uganda.

Choreography is not his forte, with the passages of pure dancing often looking more like imitations of dance than like means of expression.

Facial mimicry of emotions, which is the predominantly automatic and unconscious imitation of another person's facial expression, has been shown to promote social affiliation.

2. While "representation" and "imitation" are standard meanings of "mimesis," the inclusion of "expression" in a list of possible meanings of the term might seem odd.