Multiple motivations for imitation in infancy

Imitation and Social Learning in Robots, Humans and Animals: Behavioural, Social and Communicative Dimensions

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 343-360

  Nielsen, Mark ^a   Slaughter, Virginia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511489808.023     Document Type: Chapter

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