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Imitation across changes in object affordances and social context in 9‐month‐old infants
Author(s) -
Devouche Emmanuel
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
developmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.801
H-Index - 127
eISSN - 1467-7687
pISSN - 1363-755X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-7687.00014
Subject(s) - imitation , psychology , affordance , variation (astronomy) , developmental psychology , context (archaeology) , object (grammar) , cognitive imitation , cognitive psychology , social environment , social psychology , linguistics , paleontology , political science , law , biology , philosophy , physics , astrophysics
In this study, we tested whether a variation in an acoustic property of the target object or in the familiarity of the partner through a variation in the duration of social contact before demonstration elicits a variation in 9‐month‐old infants’ imitation. Results showed that infants’ imitation was facilitated by the presence of a sound but was not enhanced by an increase in the familiarity of the model.