Selective imitation in 6-month-olds: The role of the social and physical context

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 509-512

  Seehagen, Sabine ^a,b   Herbert, Jane S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Context; Imitation; Infant; Learning; Maternal

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HOME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; INFANT; LABORATORY; LEARNING; MALE; MOTHER; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE IMITATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84862494369     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2012.05.002     Document Type: Article

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