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Toward a microanalysis of imitative actions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1998

Stefan Vogt  and
David Carey
Stefan Vogt
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YF, Englands.vogt@lancaster.ac.uk www.lancs.ac.uk/users/psych/staff/sv.htm
David Carey
Affiliation:
Neuropsychology Research Group, Department of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Old Aberdeen, AB24 2UB, Scotlandd.carey@abdn.ac.uk www.psyc.abdn.ac.uk/homedir/decarey.htm
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Abstract

We outline a view of imitative behaviour as largely internally driven and discuss, based on experimental research, the distinction between program versus action level imitation, the role of organismic constraints, observational learning as vicarious exploration, and imitation as selection in speeded response paradigms.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 5 , October 1998 , pp. 705 - 706
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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