György Gergely studies developmental cognition, including how infants interpret another person’s action. In the head-touch-lamp experiment, the demonstrator’s available hands changed the context for an unusual action. Comparing infants’ later imitation across contexts tests whether they reproduce a movement indiscriminately or respond to information about why the demonstrator used that movement. [ref]
Rational imitation in preverbal infants by György Gergely and others. 2002, hands-free and hands-occupied demonstrations
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