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Great apes imitate actions of others and effects of others' actions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1998

Robert W. Mitchell
Robert W. Mitchell
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY 40475 psymitch@acs.eku.edu
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Abstract

Apes imitate the effects of others' actions, but the evidence for program-level imitation seems contradictory and the evidence against bodily imitation and trial and error in learning the organization of complex activities seems ambiguous. Action-level imitations are more flexible than described and may derive from imitation of the effects of others' actions on objects.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 5 , October 1998 , pp. 700
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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