A developmental psychologist who, with Andrew N. Meltzoff, tested whether newborn infants match modeled facial and manual gestures. Their 1977 experiments compared infants’ responses to different modeled actions. The claim concerns action-specific matching, so controls must distinguish imitation from a general increase in infant activity or arousal.[ref]
Imitation of facial and manual gestures by human neonates by Andrew N. Meltzoff and M. Keith Moore. 1977, modeled actions and coded infant responses
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