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Paulus, Markus; Hunnius, Sabine; Vissers, Marlies; Bekkering, Harold – Developmental Science, 2011
This paper investigates a two-stage model of infants' imitative learning from observed actions and their effects. According to this model, the observation of another person's action activates the corresponding motor code in the infants' motor repertoire (i.e. leads to motor resonance). The second process guiding imitative behavior results from the…
Descriptors: Imitation, Observational Learning, Infants, Investigations

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