Animal Behavior & CognitionbioRxiv
Human infants’ understanding of social imitation: Inferences of affiliation from third party observations
This study investigates how 4- to 5.5-month-old infants infer social affiliation from observed imitation, finding that infants expect imitators to affiliate with targets but not vice versa, and that their expectations vary with complexity.
DOI 10.1016/j.cognition.2017.09.007