It’s all about the game: Infants’ action strategies during imitation are influenced by their prior expectations

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3570-3574

  Yu, Yue ^a   Kushnir, Tamar ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

emulation; faithful imitation; infant; prior expectation; social cognition; social context

Indexed keywords

EARLY LEARNING; EMULATION; FAITHFUL IMITATION; INFANT; INTERACTIVE CONTROL; MEAN AGES; PRIOR EXPECTATION; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL CONTEXT; SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS;

EID: 85139496244     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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