Delayed imitation of lipsmacking gestures by infant rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta).

Human infants are capable of accurately matching facial gestures of an experimenter within a few hours after birth, a phenomenon called neonatal imitation. Recent studies have suggested that rather than being a simple reflexive-like behavior, infants exert active control over imitative responses and...

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Main Authors: Annika Paukner, Pier F Ferrari, Stephen J Suomi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0028848&type=printable
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