Human Toddlers’ Attempts to Match Two Simple Behaviors Provide No Evidence for an Inherited, Dedicated Imitation Mechanism

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About the Authors

Susan S. Jones

* E-mail: jones1@indiana.edu

Affiliation Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

Conceived and designed the experiments: SJ. Performed the experiments: SJ. Analyzed the data: SJ. Wrote the paper: SJ.

Imitation
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Elbow
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Cellular neuroscience
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Neurons
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Infants
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Children
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Toddlers
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