Dual-route imitation in preschool children
| Autor: | Paola Mengotti, Caterina Spiezio, Raffaella I. Rumiati, Evan Balaban, Linda Sebastianutto |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Specular imitation media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Development 050105 experimental psychology Young infants 03 medical and health sciences Child Development 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Meaningful gestures Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Child Preschool media_common Communication Transitive relation Gestures business.industry 05 social sciences General Medicine DUAL (cognitive architecture) Imitative Behavior Child development Meaningless gestures Child Preschool Female Preference Settore M-PSI/02 - Psicobiologia e Psicologia Fisiologica Cognitive imitation business Psychology Imitation 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Gesture |
| Zdroj: | Acta Psychologica. 173:94-100 |
| ISSN: | 0001-6918 |
| Popis: | Imitation can be realized via two different routes: a direct route that translates visual input into motor output when gestures are meaningless or unknown, and a semantic route for known/meaningful gestures. Young infants show imitative behaviours compatible with the direct route, but little is known about the development of the semantic route, studied here for the first time. The present study examined preschool children (3-5years of age) imitating gestures that could be transitive or intransitive, and meaningful or meaningless. Both routes for imitation were already present by three years of age, and children were more accurate at imitating meaningful-intransitive gestures than meaningless-intransitive ones; the reverse pattern was found for transitive gestures. Children preferred to use their dominant hand even if they had to anatomically imitate the model to do this, showing that a preference for specular imitation is not exclusive at these ages. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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