Explaining facial imitation: a theoretical model (1997)
| Venue: | Early Development and Parenting |
| Citations: | 28 - 2 self |
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@ARTICLE{Meltzoff97explainingfacial,
author = {Andrew N. Meltzoff and M. Keith Moore},
title = {Explaining facial imitation: a theoretical model},
journal = {Early Development and Parenting},
year = {1997},
volume = {6},
pages = {179--192}
}
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Imitation is a mechanism for the intergenerational transmission of acquired characteristics. Before explicit linguistic instruction, infants learn many of the skills, customs, and behaviour patterns of their culture through imitation. In imitating, infants use another's behaviours as a basis for their own, despite differences in body size, perspective of view, and modality through which self and other can be perceived. As ubiquitous and useful as imitation is, how imitation is accomplished poses one of the deeper puzzles in infancy.







